[PATCH 4/9] Documentation: spi-nor: rewrite some portions

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 11:14:18 PDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 07:44:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 at 07:32:49 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > WIP. This could be improved more (e.g., don't spend too much time
> > documenting history; just document the current framework)
> > 
> >  Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++------------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt b/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt
> > index 294d5b06f892..bfcdeb94e053 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/mtd/spi-nor.txt
> > @@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
> >                            SPI NOR framework
> >                 ============================================
> > 
> > -Part I - why we need this framework?
> > +Part I - Why do we need this framework?
> >  -------------------------------------
> 
> The underline is not matching the length of the text now ;-)

It wasn't exactly matching in the first place. But I'll adjust all the
headings so the line is exactly as long as the text.

> > 
> > -The SPI bus controller only deals with the byte stream.
> > -Some controller does not works like a SPI bus controller, it works
> > -like a SPI NOR controller instead, such as the Freescale's QuadSPI
> > controller. +SPI bus controllers (drivers/spi/) only deal with streams of
> > bytes; the bus +controller operates agnostic of the specific device
> > attached. However, some +controllers (such as Freescale's QuadSPI
> > controller) cannot easily handle +arbitrary streams of bytes, but rather
> > are designed specifically for SPI NOR.
> 
> You use the word 'specifically' here and below quick after one another, that 
> doesn't sound nice when you read the text.

Sure, thanks for pointing it out.

> > -The Freescale's QuadSPI controller should know the NOR commands to
> > -find the right LUT sequence. Unfortunately, the old code can not meet
> > -this requirement.
> > +Specifically, Freescale's QuadSPI controller must know the NOR commands to

My changes are pushed here temporarily, and I'll send v2 in the next day or so:

  http://git.infradead.org/users/norris/linux-mtd.git/shortlog/refs/heads/spinor

Brian



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