[PATCH v3 0/4] xilinx_spi: Split into platform and of driver, support new IP, platform independence.

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sat Nov 14 07:13:45 EST 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:59 PM, John Linn <John.Linn at xilinx.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: glikely at secretlab.ca [mailto:glikely at secretlab.ca] On Behalf Of Grant Likely
>> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 11:30 AM
>> To: Richard Röjfors
>> Cc: spi-devel-general at lists.sourceforge.net; linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org; Andrew Morton;
>> dbrownell at users.sourceforge.net; John Linn
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] xilinx_spi: Split into platform and of driver, support new IP, platform
>> independence.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Richard Röjfors
>> <richard.rojfors at mocean-labs.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > To follow is a series of patches against the xilinx_spi driver.
>> >
>> > The patchset is against 2.6.32-rc6
>> >
>> > The patchset addresses several problems in the current driver:
>> > * It's PPC only (OF and uses PPC specific memory operations)
>> > * Only supporting big endian writes
>> > * Supports only 8bit SPI, support for DS570 (also 16 or 32 bit) is added.
>> > * A platform driver is introduced for non OF capable architectures.
>> >
>> > These patches were posted as one big patch up to 4 iterations, not splitted into 4.
>> >
>> > This version, 3, is updated after review from Grant Likely and John Linn
>> >
>> > John Linn has also tested the code on PPC, I have only tested on X86.
>>
>> Applied to my 'test' branch on git.secretlab.ca.  There was a conflict
>> on patch 3/4 with a previous bugfix from John Linn.  Please check that
>> I've fixed it up correctly.
>
> I think I reverted that change as Richard's fixes it I believe.

It is a real bug fix, and so should be in a separate patch.

g.

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