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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: vwool@ru.mvista.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] simple SPI framework, refresh + ads7864 driver
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:24:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051005162453.GD7761@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051005162117.24DDBEE95B@adsl-69-107-32-110.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net>

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:21:17AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> In my investigations of SPI, I don't happen to have come across any
> SPI slave device that would naturally be handled as a block device.
> There's lots of flash (and dataflash); that's MTD, not block.

In two words, MMC cards.

They can be used in MMC mode or SPI mode.  There have been some queries
about using them in SPI mode, but I don't think anyone's written such
a driver (yet).

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-05 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-05 16:21 [PATCH/RFC 0/2] simple SPI framework, refresh + ads7864 driver David Brownell
2005-10-05 16:24 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-10-05 17:27   ` David Brownell
2005-10-06  4:57 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-10-06 18:13 ` Mark Underwood
2005-10-06 18:20   ` Vitaly Wool
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-05 15:18 David Brownell
2005-10-05 15:10 David Brownell
2005-10-13 19:37 ` Lee Revell
2005-10-04 20:18 David Brownell
2005-10-05  8:07 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-10-04 18:02 David Brownell
2005-10-04 19:08 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-10-05  7:56 ` Vitaly Wool

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