From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751291Ab0KVF5i (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:57:38 -0500 Received: from tango.tkos.co.il ([62.219.50.35]:59387 "EHLO tango.tkos.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083Ab0KVF5h (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:57:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:57:05 +0200 From: Baruch Siach To: Thomas Chou Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Indan Zupancic , Greg KH , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alex Gershgorin Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation Message-ID: <20101122055704.GA28660@jasper.tkos.co.il> References: <4CE373BC.30805@wytron.com.tw> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CE373BC.30805@wytron.com.tw> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Thomas, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:18:36PM +0800, Thomas Chou wrote: > On 11/15/2010 04:23 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: > >From: Alex Gershgorin > > > >The active serial protocol can be used to program Altera serial configuration > >devices. This driver uses the kernel gpio interface to implement the active > >serial protocol. > > > >This patch also introduces the include/platform_drivers/ directory, which is > >the new home for platform data headers. This is per Greg's suggestion. > > Altera EPCS is normal SPI serial flash, which is exactly the same as > STmicro part. Please consider existing drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c > and drivers/spi/spi_gpio.c. For the record, I tested your suggestion and it works perfectly. Thanks. Thank you everyone for your helpful suggestion regarding the, now abandoned, Altera active serial implementation driver. baruch -- ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -