Re: [PATCHv2 00/10] Add memory mapped support for ti qspi, m25p80 serial flash.

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On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 05:11:43 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:49:13PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > My question is, shall we not wait for the new SPI NOR framework to be
> > well fleshed out and only then implement this controller driver on top
> > of it ?
> > 
> > I have a feeling this patchset adds quite a lot of ad-hoc hacks into the
> > m25p80 driver, which would become dead code once converted to the SPI
> > NOR framework.
> 
> There is some stuff that pushes up into the controller in that while the
> device is in memory mapped mode as far as I can tell it's not safe to do
> other accesses so if someone's put more than one device on the SPI bus
> we need to handle interactions there.

OK, so it's either-or . That seems OK, you might want to have two drivers for 
this ip block, one to handle it as a SPI block and one to handle it as a SPI-NOR 
block. ... that is of course, if these two modes can't work together.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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