Re: [PATCH 0/7] Device table matching for SPI subsystem

From: David Brownell
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 20:29:06 EST


On Wednesday 29 July 2009, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> platform_data is overkill for m25p80 chips, the
> driver only needs to know exact chip model, and that's what device
> tables are for.

To be fair, the platform_data also supports partitioning
and labeling e.g. for cmdlinepart ... though I'd tend to
agree that most SPI flash chips are kind of small (so
they're mostly just one smallish partition).



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