Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753489AbYKHUvT (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:51:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752492AbYKHUvH (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:51:07 -0500 Received: from server.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.28]:34595 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752440AbYKHUvE (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:51:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 21:50:56 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Brownell , Grant Likely Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 RFC] MMC SPI support for OpenFirmware platforms Message-ID: <20081108215056.5ad2abe7@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <20081030195546.GA30645@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> References: <20081030195546.GA30645@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1209 Lines: 34 On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:55:46 +0300 Anton Vorontsov 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 -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org WARNING: This correspondence is being monitored by the Swedish government. Make sure your server uses encryption for SMTP traffic and consider using PGP for end-to-end encryption. -- 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/