[PATCH 0/3 RFC] MMC SPI support for OpenFirmware platforms

Pierre Ossman drzeus-mmc at drzeus.cx
Sun Nov 9 07:50:56 EST 2008


On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:55:46 +0300
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov at ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> 
> Pierre, the approach is somewhat similar to this one:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/26/135
> Posted few months ago.
> 
> I know you don't like it, but I ask you to reconsider it. The
> I2C and SPI cases are similar, and recently we tried to write
> bindings for some I2C GPIO controllers.
> 

This new version is a bit better in that you've generalised thing more.
I'd still prefer if we can have an interface where the driver doesn't
have to know that it is on an ACPI/OF/EFI/whatnot host, but I can live
with this model for now.

Rgds
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