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 <greg at kroah.com> [2005-05-31 16:32:15 -0700]: > What do you mean by this? Which i2c people? (...) * Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> [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 at lightlink.com
