[PATCH v3 0/9] spi: Extend the framework to generically support memory devices

Vignesh R vigneshr at ti.com
Thu Apr 26 02:07:10 PDT 2018



On Monday 23 April 2018 12:05 AM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Shrinking a bit the explanation on why the spi-mem abstraction is
> needed (a detailed explanation is available here [2]). In addition to
> what as been said in my initial explanation I'll add that making it part
> of the SPI framework instead of as an extra independent layer is
> justified by the fact that some controllers support both SPI memory
> operations and regular SPI transfers, and it's cleaner to have both
> features exposed through a single driver.
> 
> For those who want to have the full picture, here is a branch [1]
> containing the SPI NAND framework based on top of this spi-mem layer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Boris
> 
> [1]https://github.com/bbrezillon/linux/tree/spi-mem
> [2]https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-spi/msg12058.html
> 
> 

I am trying to apply this on top of linux-next, but
[PATCH v2 01/10] spi: Check presence the of ->transfer[_xxx]() before
registering a controller
from v2 is missing in this series and it does not seem to be in spi.git
as well?


-- 
Regards
Vignesh



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