From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: =?utf-8?q?Rafa=C5=82_Mi=C5=82ecki?= <zajec5@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: add struct for serial flash
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:28 +0100
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	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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Le lundi 17 juin 2013 21:38:42, Rafał Miłecki a écrit :
> 2013/6/17 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>:
> > This data allow writing for example MTD driver.
> 
> To make this a bit more clear:
> 
> Up until now, we were detecting flash model in
> driver_chipcommon_sflash.c, but nothing more than that. It was printed
> and that's all. Noone could read it's details or/and use it.
> 
> As providing an access to the flash is usually a good idea, we need an
> additional MTD driver for it. Such MTD driver needs some basic info
> about flash. It's mapping address and size at least.
> With this patch we put all important data in struct ssb_sflash. It can
> be accessed in two possible ways:
> 1) With the: bus->mipscore.sflash path. How to get a reference to the
> "bus"? It's an static exported symbols on some archs (bcm47xx).
> 2) Directly, it "sflash" is registered as a platform driver data. My
> next patch will address that.

Ok, well this was probably worth a cover letter just for this, and the second 
patch to be posted too ;) Thanks for the explanation


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Florian