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From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: add struct for serial flash
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306172209.28529.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rzDv1d4Znni+XUXprZp4RrFLr5yyBdJyPVLHB9n2U3_BQ@mail.gmail.com>

Le lundi 17 juin 2013 21:38:42, Rafał Miłecki a écrit :
> 2013/6/17 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> > This data allow writing for example MTD driver.
> 
> To make this a bit more clear:
> 
> Up until now, we were detecting flash model in
> driver_chipcommon_sflash.c, but nothing more than that. It was printed
> and that's all. Noone could read it's details or/and use it.
> 
> As providing an access to the flash is usually a good idea, we need an
> additional MTD driver for it. Such MTD driver needs some basic info
> about flash. It's mapping address and size at least.
> With this patch we put all important data in struct ssb_sflash. It can
> be accessed in two possible ways:
> 1) With the: bus->mipscore.sflash path. How to get a reference to the
> "bus"? It's an static exported symbols on some archs (bcm47xx).
> 2) Directly, it "sflash" is registered as a platform driver data. My
> next patch will address that.

Ok, well this was probably worth a cover letter just for this, and the second 
patch to be posted too ;) Thanks for the explanation


-- 
Florian

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-17 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-17 17:56 [PATCH] ssb: add struct for serial flash Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-17 19:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2013-06-17 19:46   ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-17 20:33     ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-17 20:38 ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-17 20:40   ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-06-17 21:09   ` Florian Fainelli [this message]

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