[PATCH v2] spi: orion.c: Add direct access mode

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 06:45:35AM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:

> Right. It is of course possible to use this direct mode to access
> SPI flash. Its just not the way how the SPI MTD driver uses the
> SPI controller. All information that is written to the SPI flash
> (e.g. commands, addresses) are passed as plain tx-data in the SPI
> message to the SPI controller. And it would be not easy to detect
> commands / addresses vs. "real data" in this orion SPI driver
> to put these values into the specific registers.

We now have extensions for passing commands through directly (see
spi_flash_read()).
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