[spi-devel-general] Re: SPI

[Mark U. <bas...@ya...>]

Hi David,

How did you guess :). I'm currently working on a bitbanging driver with parport support. However,
I am currently stuck when unregistering my device and am unsure if this is the SPI framework or
just my driver. My Linux machine is 'ill' at the moment but I'll get what I have so far and mail
it (do you want me to send it to the LKML or just to you seeing as it is still incomplete).

Mark

--- David Brownell <da...@pa...> wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 2:01 pm, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Friday 11 November 2005 1:32 am, dmitry pervushin wrote:
> > > This is an updated version of SPI framework from me, Dmitry Pervushin.
> > > It seems that now it is good time to consolidate our SPI frameworks to
> > > push it to kernel :)
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> And I see Andrew merged my framework into MM, and that it's already
> gotten some patches.  I think that means the next MM kernel (rc2-mm2?)
> will be a good base for that consolidation.  (Dunno about 2.6.16...)
> 
> 
> What this suggests to me is that there may need to be a few more
> patches on the way.  Drivers, especially ... but also a few in the
> framework itself. I fully expect someone to want:
> 
> >  - Yours has a "struct spi_driver", mine doesn't.  It's probably
> >    inevitable, though not currently needed.  Likewise mine has
> >    the struct driver.suspend() and resume() changes, yours doesn't.
> 
> That's in the "best done early" category.
> 
> 
> Sometime after Stephen posts his updated pxa2xx_spi driver, I'll
> be able to post the Lubbock board-specific patch ... that'll mean
> one "reference" board (albeit an old one) has out-of-the-box support
> on Linux.  Given the number of PXA25x systems with an ADS7846, I'd
> hope to see some testers of that stack (and, surely, bugfixes).
> 
> One of the things that would IMO help here is getting a bitbanging
> adapter driver:  rub four GPIO pins together, make a fire.  ;)
> 
> If anyone's at work on such a thing (Mark?) please drop a line;
> it looks to me like this should be very simple, and incidentally
> help nail down any semantics that aren't described in the docs.
> 
> - Dave
> 
> 



		
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