From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add 93cx6 eeprom library
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:34:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070507153450.GC5125@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070507142715.GB32546@fluff.org.uk>
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:27:15PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:46:04AM -0400, Michael Wu wrote:
> > From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
> >
> > This patch adds a library for reading from and writing to 93cx6 eeproms.
>
> This looks remarkably like an SPI device, why not use the
> spi framework to drive this?
This isn't intended to be a user-visible device. Rather, it
is a support library for internal use by drivers to read hardware
configuration info, etc. Given that, do we really need something as
heavy as implementing an SPI master, etc?
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-07 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 7:46 [PATCH 1/2] Add 93cx6 eeprom library Michael Wu
2007-05-07 7:53 ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-05-07 14:27 ` Ben Dooks
2007-05-07 15:34 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-05-07 15:40 ` Michael Wu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-11 19:59 Michael Wu
2007-05-11 20:07 ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-05-12 19:17 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-13 1:29 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-13 8:13 ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-05-13 8:22 ` Johannes Berg
2007-05-13 18:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-14 17:45 ` John W. Linville
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