Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] eeprom: at25: SPI transfer improvements

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 08:02:37PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Boris,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:07 PM Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Did you consider converting this driver to spimem? Looks like the
> > protocol used to communicate with the memory resembles the one used on
> > SPI NANDs/NORs and fits pretty well in the spi_mem_op representation.
> >
> > By doing this conversion you'd allow people to connect an AT25 EEPROM
> > to an advanced SPI controller that does not support regular SPI
> > transfers and you wouldn't have to forge SPI messages manually.
> >
> > Here is a patch (only compile tested) doing that. The diffstat is not in
> > favor of this conversion, but I find the resulting code cleaner and more
> > future proof.
> 
> Thanks, seems to work fine, with the 512-byte 25LC040 I have!
> 
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I did notice that the first two-byte transfer (command+offset) of each
> message is now split in two one-byte transfers, though.

Ok, I'll drop this patch series and wait for the updated version to be
sent out :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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