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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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 Rini van Zetten <rini@arvoo.nl>
Subject: Re: [spi-devel-general] [PATCH -mm v4][POWERPC] mpc8xxx : allow SPI
	without cs.
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:38:03 -0700
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On Friday 19 June 2009, Rini van Zetten wrote:
> This patch adds the possibility to have a spi device without a cs.

Note that there's now the SPI_NO_CS bit in spi_device.mode
to describe this situation ... so no "-EEXIST" hackery should
ever tempt anyone again.