Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] simple SPI framework, refresh + ads7864 driver

Russell King
2005-10-05T16:25:01Z

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).

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