netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add 93cx6 eeprom library

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Message-ID: <20070507153450.GC5125@tuxdriver.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 11:34:50 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
Cc:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add 93cx6 eeprom library

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:27:15PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:46:04AM -0400, Michael Wu wrote:
> > From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
> > 
> > This patch adds a library for reading from and writing to 93cx6 eeproms.
> 
> This looks remarkably like an SPI device, why not use the
> spi framework to drive this?

This isn't intended to be a user-visible device.  Rather, it
is a support library for internal use by drivers to read hardware
configuration info, etc.  Given that, do we really need something as
heavy as implementing an SPI master, etc?

John
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John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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