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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
	Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] spi: introduce flag for memory mapped read
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:17:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150731181745.GM20873@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438072876-16338-2-git-send-email-vigneshr@ti.com>

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:11:12PM +0530, Vignesh R wrote:

> Introduce use_mmap_read field in spi_message struct. This can be set by
> mtd devices (m25p80) to indicate to spi-master (ti-qspi) to perform
> memory mapped read. This helps to distinguish whether the spi-message is
> from mtd layer(hence mmap read is possible) or by other spi devices.

Based on this description and...

> + * @use_mmap_mode: Indicate to spi master to perform memory mapped
> + *	read if possible.

...the internal documentation I unable to tell what is meant by "perform
a memory mapped read", at least to the extent where it is visible
outside of the driver.  This means we can't really use this as a generic
API since other people won't be able to tell what it does.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-31 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28  8:41 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add memory mapped read support for TI QSPI Vignesh R
2015-07-28  8:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] spi: introduce flag for memory mapped read Vignesh R
2015-07-31 18:17   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2015-08-03  4:57     ` Vignesh R
2015-08-04 15:51       ` Mark Brown
2015-08-04 17:59         ` R, Vignesh
2015-08-05  5:21           ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-05  5:35             ` Vignesh R
2015-08-05  5:57               ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-05 11:50           ` Mark Brown
2015-08-05 12:40             ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-05 12:44               ` Mark Brown
2015-08-05 12:56                 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-06  9:02                   ` Mark Brown
2015-08-06 10:01                     ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-06 10:22                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-06 11:00                         ` Mark Brown
2015-08-06 11:02                         ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-06 12:25                         ` Vignesh R
2015-08-06 13:51                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-06 16:14                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-08-06 18:20                               ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-06 21:33                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-07  7:38                                 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-07  8:35                                   ` Vignesh R
2015-08-07  8:25                                 ` Martin Sperl
2015-08-07 10:16                                   ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-12  9:27                                     ` Vignesh R
2015-08-06 16:46                             ` Mark Brown
2015-08-06 18:20                           ` Mark Brown
2015-08-06 11:23                       ` Mark Brown
2015-08-06 11:42                         ` Michal Suchanek
2015-08-06 16:03                           ` Mark Brown
2015-07-28  8:41 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] spi: spi-ti-qspi: Add memory mapped read support Vignesh R
2015-07-28  8:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mtd: devices: m25p80: set flag to request memory mapped read Vignesh R
2015-07-28  8:41 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] ARM: dts: DRA7: Add memory map region entries for qspi Vignesh R
2015-07-31 13:48   ` Sekhar Nori
2015-08-03  5:09     ` Vignesh R
2015-07-31 18:19   ` Mark Brown
2015-08-03  5:02     ` Vignesh R
2015-08-04 15:52       ` Mark Brown
2015-07-31 21:28   ` Brian Norris
2015-08-03  5:06     ` Vignesh R
2015-07-28  8:41 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] ARM: dts: AM4372: " Vignesh R

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