From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
Piot Skamruk <piotr.skamruk@gmail.com>,
Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>,
openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add dynamic MMC-over-SPI-GPIO driver
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:00:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807151500.17197.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216098409.4265.144.camel@moss.renham>
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 07:06:49 Ben Nizette wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 21:09 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > This driver provides a sysfs interface to dynamically create
> > and destroy GPIO-based MMC/SD card interfaces.
> > So an MMC or SD card can be connected to generic GPIO pins
> > and be configured dynamically from userspace.
>
> Can you use mmc-spi attached to spi-gpio and be done with it?
This is _exactly_ what this module does. It combines mmc-spi and
spi-gpio and creates an actual device for them.
> Sure you
> won't have the dynamic alloc capability but you won't be reinventing the
> wheel either.
This does not reinvent anything. It just wires up the two modules.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 19:09 [PATCH] Add dynamic MMC-over-SPI-GPIO driver Michael Buesch
2008-07-14 20:54 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-15 12:58 ` Michael Buesch
2008-07-15 5:06 ` Ben Nizette
2008-07-15 13:00 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-07-21 20:49 ` David Brownell
2008-07-15 17:42 ` Michael Buesch
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