From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261331AbVFBEHM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:07:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261527AbVFBEHM (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:07:12 -0400 Received: from smtp-relay.dca.net ([216.158.48.66]:61099 "EHLO smtp-relay.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261331AbVFBEHF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:07:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:06:55 -0400 From: "Mark M. Hoffman" To: Greg KH Cc: dmitry pervushin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors Subject: Re: [RFC] SPI core Message-ID: <20050602040655.GE4906@jupiter.solarsys.private> References: <1117555756.4715.17.camel@diimka.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20050531233215.GB23881@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050531233215.GB23881@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Greg, Dmitry: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:09:16PM +0400, dmitry pervushin wrote: > > In order to support the specific board, we have ported the generic SPI > > core to the 2.6 kernel. This core provides basic API to create/manage > > SPI devices like the I2C core does. We need to continue providing > > support of SPI devices and would like to maintain the SPI subtree. It > > would be nice if SPI core patch were applied to the vanilla kernel. > > I2C people do not like to mainain this code as well as I2C, so... * Greg KH [2005-05-31 16:32:15 -0700]: > What do you mean by this? Which i2c people? (...) * Greg KH [2005-05-31 16:32:15 -0700]: > This code is _very_ close to just a copy of the i2c core code. Why > duplicate it and not work with the i2c people instead? It was discussed briefly on the lm-sensors mailing list [1]. I didn't reply at the time, but I do agree that SPI and I2C/SMBus are different enough to warrant independent subsystems. [1] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2005-May/012385.html Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman@lightlink.com