linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: add arch/tile/drivers/ directory with SROM driver

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Date:	Sat, 21 May 2011 17:54:17 -0700
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>,
	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/tile: add arch/tile/drivers/ directory with SROM driver

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2011 09:46:55 Eric Biederman wrote:
>> What is wrong with an mtd driver?
>>
>> Looking a bit back into the conversation it appears clear that you are
>> talking about something that resembles NOR flash with multiple sectors,
>> etc.
>>
>> eeproms have random byte access and are typically 256 bytes.  You devices
>> doesn't sound anything like an eeprom.
>
> MTD implies that you have low-level access to the NOR flash registers,
> which this one doesn't. It's certainly not the right Linux interface
> for a high-level flash device, and there is no precedent for this at
> all in Linux.
>
> We do have precedent for multiple interfaces that have the same
> purpose as this one:
>
> drivers/misc/eeprom/*
> drivers/char/ps3flash.c
> drivers/char/nwflash.c
> drivers/char/bfin-otp.c

there is a new otp framework in the works that this driver would move
to.  but that wouldnt matter to the driver being proposed for the tile
arch i dont think.
-mike
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