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

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Wed Apr 9 10:44:15 PDT 2014


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 ;-)

> 
> -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.

> -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

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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