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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>
Cc: spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] spidev.c: add sysfs attributes for SPI configuration
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:09:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121219150925.8262E3E0AD7@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353777608-24934-1-git-send-email-federico.vaga@gmail.com>

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:20:08 +0100, Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch introduce the use of the sysfs attribute for the spidev
> configuration. This avoid the user to have a specific program which does
> ioctl() on spidev. The user can easily does cat (to read) and echo (to
> write) on the sysfs file and configure SPI.
> 
> The patch exports the following attributes: bits-per-word, lsb-first,
> mode and speed-hz.
> 
> Example:
>     # cat /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi1.0/speed-hz
>     500000
>     # echo 450000 > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi1.0/speed-hz
>     # dmesg | tail -n 4
>     spidev spi1.0: DEactivate 60, mr 000f0011
>     spidev spi1.0: setup: 449447 Hz bpw 8 mode 0x0 -> csr0 0000dd02
>     spidev spi1.0: setup mode 0, 8 bits/w, 450000 Hz max --> 0
>     spidev spi1.0: 450000 Hz (max)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>

Not a good idea. sysfs is not a good place for operational interfaces.
Please use the spi character devices for direct manipulation of the SPI
configuration.

g.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-19 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-24 17:20 [PATCH RFC] spidev.c: add sysfs attributes for SPI configuration Federico Vaga
2012-12-19 15:09 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2012-12-20 15:30   ` Federico Vaga
2012-12-22  9:47     ` Grant Likely
2012-12-22 11:21       ` Federico Vaga
2012-12-22 18:29         ` Greg KH

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