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On Tuesday 26 November 2013 03:59 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:04:58PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
>
>>   	void	(*get_buf)(struct spi_master *master);
>>   	void	(*put_buf)(struct spi_master *master);
>> +	void	(*configure_from_slave)(struct spi_device *spi, u8 *val);
> Clearly this is far too unstructured to be useful, this is only ever
> going to work with one specific combination of slave and master since
> there's absolutely no semantics defined.
I thought "val" might be good enuf, and this can be filled with whatever
data that need to be used from slave into master(irrespective of slave 
and master?).