Re: [PATCH v9] spi: New driver for Altera SPI

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:04:49PM +0800, Thomas Chou wrote:
> Dear Ryan,
> 
> On 02/14/2011 10:20 AM, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> >On 02/14/2011 03:10 PM, Thomas Chou wrote:
> >>This patch adds a new SPI driver to support the Altera SOPC Builder
> >>SPI component. It uses the bitbanging library.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou<thomas@wytron.com.tw>
> >>---
> >
> >>+struct altera_spi {
> >>+	/* bitbang has to be first */
> >>+	struct spi_bitbang bitbang;
> >
> >Is this still true? I had a quick look and can't see anything which
> >relies on spi_bitbang being the first entry. Things like this should be
> >using container_of so that position in the struct is irrelevant.
> >
> >~Ryan
> >
> 
> Yes, sadly true. This is due to the implementation of the bitbanging
> library, spi_bitbang.c, which assumes the struct spi_bitbang is the
> first of drvdata. Though it could be changed in the future (beyond
> this little driver), every bitbanging library user has to follow
> this for now.

Should be easy to fix if it is indeed still true (I haven't dug deep
enough to find the design error yet).  Anybody want to volunteer?

g.