[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH v2 1/3] New i.MX31 SPI driver

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <20080508181708.60e8b3e9@hskinnemo-gx620.norway.atmel.com> you wrote:
>
> Yes, perhaps we need that. But I was sort of thinking that once you
> initialize a slave, it will just stick around until you boot an OS or
> reset. Most drivers don't seem to have any cleanup hooks anyway, and
> some don't even have init hooks. In the latter case, you can simply
> keep a static struct spi_slave * around and if it's NULL, you
> initialize it.

Even if there is lots of bad examples, it is a design requirement to
disable a hardware interface after use. See bullet 6 at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/UBoot/DesignRequirements

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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