[RFC PATCH 1/6] spi: Extend the core to ease integration of SPI memory controllers

[Boris Brezillon]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:20:46 +0530
Vignesh R <vigneshr at ti.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 06 February 2018 04:51 AM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> > 
> > Some controllers are exposing high-level interfaces to access various
> > kind of SPI memories. Unfortunately they do not fit in the current
> > spi_controller model and usually have drivers placed in
> > drivers/mtd/spi-nor which are only supporting SPI NORs and not SPI
> > memories in general.
> > 
> > This is an attempt at defining a SPI memory interface which works for
> > all kinds of SPI memories (NORs, NANDs, SRAMs).  
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if spi_mem* implementations were in separate file?
> drivers/spi/spi.c is 3.5K+ lines and is bit difficult to follow.

No strong opinion about where the spi_mem code should lie, so if Mark
agrees I can move it to a different file and possibly make it optional
with a Kconfig option.


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