Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:24:53 +0100
From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: vwool@ru.mvista.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] simple SPI framework, refresh + ads7864 driver
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:21:17AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> In my investigations of SPI, I don't happen to have come across any
> SPI slave device that would naturally be handled as a block device.
> There's lots of flash (and dataflash); that's MTD, not block.

In two words, MMC cards.

They can be used in MMC mode or SPI mode.  There have been some queries
about using them in SPI mode, but I don't think anyone's written such
a driver (yet).

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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