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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] eeprom: at25: SPI transfer improvements
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:40:59 +0100
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Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:08:39PM +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:50:54 +0100
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:02:37PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Hi Boris,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:07 PM Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org> wrote:  
> > > > Did you consider converting this driver to spimem? Looks like the
> > > > protocol used to communicate with the memory resembles the one used on
> > > > SPI NANDs/NORs and fits pretty well in the spi_mem_op representation.
> > > >
> > > > By doing this conversion you'd allow people to connect an AT25 EEPROM
> > > > to an advanced SPI controller that does not support regular SPI
> > > > transfers and you wouldn't have to forge SPI messages manually.
> > > >
> > > > Here is a patch (only compile tested) doing that. The diffstat is not in
> > > > favor of this conversion, but I find the resulting code cleaner and more
> > > > future proof.  
> > > 
> > > Thanks, seems to work fine, with the 512-byte 25LC040 I have!
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > > 
> > > I did notice that the first two-byte transfer (command+offset) of each
> > > message is now split in two one-byte transfers, though.  
> > 
> > Ok, I'll drop this patch series and wait for the updated version to be
> > sent out :)
> 
> I'd like to further simplify the patch by using the recently introduced
> devm_spi_mem_dirmap_create() function (queued to Mark's spi/for-5.1
> branch), which means I'll have to wait v5.1-rc1 before sending a new
> version. I'll let you decide if it's worth applying Geert's patches in
> the meantime.

If you all want Geert's patches merged now, someone has to resend them
please :)

thanks,

greg k-h