Re: [spi-devel-general] Re: SPI

[Vitaly W. <vw...@ru...>]

Mark Underwood wrote:

>>Yeah the kernel footprint will not significantly change... I was 
>>thinking of a different situation though.
>>Suppose you have a precompiled kernel w/o SPI support. Getting SPI to 
>>work will imply recompilation of the whole kernel which is a) 
>>inconvenient b) may be impossible due to some reasons, like not having 
>>the full source tree of this particular kernel version :)
>>Therefore I consider this a serious drawback, sorry. I2C core, as well 
>>as MTD core etc. etc. can be configured as a module; our SPI core also can.
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>So can David's core if you don't use the BIOS table feature. This is how I'm doing my development
>on a PC.
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Thanks Mark, I'm glad that you've found a way to do your development, 
unfortunately that won't necessarily fit anyone's needs :)

Vitaly