Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752153AbYJTCoa (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:44:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751142AbYJTCoW (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:44:22 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.238]:17914 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751073AbYJTCoV (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:44:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=CtMdanYGeXwaBz2GMmXnDgcMIB4XTvLFpXy4p/frvmm7aQLmqN2ov1YDiIx20IzwfF rwoI90NdNKRL3cqlrh/dD8nu611xbB2uiDsb9mTEQxnypdGJBhNmnIcq6dphk/cgEdoA WsQCxNlYtFFL67kQyQXNO6x1AzNN8Ze6K3+dw= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:44:19 +0900 From: "Magnus Damm" To: "David Brownell" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Add SPI over GPIO driver Cc: "Piotr Skamruk" , "Michael Buesch" , "Andrew Morton" , "Stephen Rothwell" , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <200810181354.23955.david-b@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200807202146.12759.mb@bu3sch.de> <200810181132.24233.mb@bu3sch.de> <6179c79b0810181341g584d0466s6a2abb68b786be38@mail.gmail.com> <200810181354.23955.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1991 Lines: 47 On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 5:54 AM, David Brownell wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2008, Piotr Skamruk wrote: >> 2008/10/18 Michael Buesch : >> > On Saturday 18 October 2008 06:36:31 Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> This patch has some "issues" a month or so ago. Current status is that >> > >> > yeah, upstream maintainers don't like these patches. >> > Please drop this one and the "gpiommc" patch now. >> > >> As i remember - David stands that these patches (or even >> functionality) are not usable for him, so he don't want to see them in >> mainstream kernel sources. It's his choice, he is maintainer of this >> subsystem. > > That patch is very limited, and wrong in several respects. > > I fully support the idea of SPI over GPIO. It's just that > particular patch which is problematic. Ok, let's fix those issues then! >> You have this on openwrt svn, I have it on my dev gittree - and as You >> can see on Magnus example - anybody interested can google for it. >> Maybe if there will be next few peoples - David will change his >> opinion on this subject... > > I'm sanity testing a refresh of the *original* late-2006 > SPI-over-GPIO driver. It's actually usable as a drop-in > replacement for a "native" driver. The Openwrt driver by Michael Buesch works just fine for me, but if you prefer to switch driver that's of course ok too. > Unfortunately I goofed and pulled down the current GIT tree > and found lots of unrelated breakage (non-SPI) that's keept > that sanity test from proceeding apace. And the board on > which it's most recently been used is currently broken. > I may just send that patch out soon, as an FYI... Please CC me and I'll test it on some SuperH boards. Thanks! / magnus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/