[PATCH V1 3/5] mtd: m25p80: add the quad-read support

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Fri Aug 23 05:41:41 EDT 2013


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:58:05AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:

> > I was actually thinking something more generic than that - putting the
> > property at the SPI generic bindings level.  Though if all flashes with
> > this dual/quad read functionality have the prefix m25p the above would
> > work also, at the minute this does seem to be mostly used by flash (I
> > bet someone's got some DSPs or something though).

> Ah! So you mean the SPI controller would provide information that it can do 
> dual/quad transfers? But then, the additional pins can only be wired to certain 
> chips (controller by certain CS lines).

No, not exactly - I just meant that the property on the child node
should be one that's consistent over all chips and could hopefully be
implemented in the SPI core as part of instantiating the device in DT.
Which probably just means stripping or changing the vendor prefix.
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