From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933888AbZHEA27 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:28:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933867AbZHEA24 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:28:56 -0400 Received: from n22.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.161]:29994 "HELO n22.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933338AbZHEA23 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:28:29 -0400 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 549658.3388.bm@omp402.mail.mud.yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=BCBrEjvZ2Em5k+b57WnWaDkiSYrgXwbrhUBIk1Cdz3z/7W2V0gF8pFw///f+413PIVqJGtrTS5GjkON6TViB0bmFwFv89RYSXLslUUIhEp9DAMQ4DL3lJvNLMROVeKQRMLek3O1vAHTeUIpfVuVy/FWMWzLWR5tZqFM0BnF66RI= ; X-YMail-OSG: Zf3JntAVM1l78pbPGhgJBfbGcnfwWvzGISjIzBhNTtsjmiVdWz8gsczUpqcfjtdK0BfaRJDfdsmxueI8DeMIexOYIodK3rFl1uEpfnZYUrd8ZDlVoAtv3uGZMWL4NnC96PdWlTRieGfugSdWmrKp8eJhqlEP7kvxXmATGGDgNRdqoW8BfcDocQ6Hvuec.8Ouq5wKKbxYcP.SuweCVJY1mUfnFT2NgtdvEOPRWX6yxON4TZcDgQ2K8uJIJPKgOwHG0dM7ZKDrc0ZosMo- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: David Brownell To: avorontsov@ru.mvista.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 19:16:02 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Andrew Morton , David Brownell , David Woodhouse , Grant Likely , Jean Delvare , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org References: <20090729170345.GA26787@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> In-Reply-To: <20090729170345.GA26787@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908031916.02880.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the > driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device > tables are for. To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so they're mostly just one smallish partition).