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From: Rui Sousa <rui.sousa@laposte.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>,
	dmitry pervushin <dpervushin@ru.mvista.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lm-sensors <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] SPI core
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:02:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117717356.5794.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050602045145.GA7838@kroah.com>

Hi Greg,

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 21:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:06:55AM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote:
> > * Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> [2005-05-31 16:32:15 -0700]:
> > > This code is _very_ close to just a copy of the i2c core code.  Why
> > > duplicate it and not work with the i2c people instead?
> > 
> > It was discussed briefly on the lm-sensors mailing list [1].  I didn't 
> > reply at the time, but I do agree that SPI and I2C/SMBus are different
> > enough to warrant independent subsystems.
> 
> Independant is fine.  But direct copies, including making the same
> mistakes (i2c dev interface, i2c driver model mess) isn't :)

I have also worked on a(nother) SPI layer implementation. Like Dmitry, I
ended up following closely the i2c implementation, so, I'm curious to
know more details on what you call "i2c driver model mess".

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks,

Rui



  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-02 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-31 16:09 [RFC] SPI core dmitry pervushin
2005-05-31 18:33 ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-31 20:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-05-31 21:41   ` NZG
2005-05-31 23:20   ` Greg KH
2005-05-31 23:32 ` Greg KH
2005-06-02  4:06   ` Mark M. Hoffman
2005-06-02  4:51     ` Greg KH
2005-06-02 13:02       ` Rui Sousa [this message]
2005-06-09  7:15         ` Greg KH
2005-06-09 10:39           ` Hinko Kocevar
2005-06-09 15:41             ` Lee Revell
2005-06-02 10:09   ` dmitry pervushin
2005-06-09 12:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-06-09 16:19   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-06-09 17:41     ` Pekka Enberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-01  1:19 David Brownell

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