[PATCH 09/17] spi/spi.h: Add "mem" variable in spi master.

Sourav Poddar sourav.poddar at ti.com
Wed Nov 27 23:38:44 EST 2013


On Tuesday 26 November 2013 06:50 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 06:35:35PM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
>> On Tuesday 26 November 2013 06:31 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> Is this really generic enough to put here rather than in the driver
>>> data?
>> The thought behind this was that if a master controller supports
>> memory mapped operation and slave wants to use memcpy in his
>> driver(bypassing spi ), then we should have a mean to communicate
>> between the
>> master and the slave. So, 'spi_master' seems to be the place for me
>> for this data,
>> which could be parsed in the slave side also.
> I would have expected that the address would be returned by the function
> that maps the buffer in rather than stored permanently in the master.
Yes, it could be be done the above way. I will change.



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