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

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:34:50 -0400

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 <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > 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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