Hi Grant, On Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:39 AM, Grant Likely wrote: > As far as examples go, drivers/mfd/timberdale.c seems > reasonable, if a bit larger than what you need.
Thank you for your suggestion. However, though seeing this driver, I didn't understand your intention. It seems platform_device/platform_driver are not used in this. Which part of this driver do you want to show me as reference ? Thanks, ----------------------------------------- Tomoya MORINAGA OKI SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD. > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Likely [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Grant Likely > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:39 AM > To: Tomoya MORINAGA > Cc: David Brownell; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Toshiharu Okada > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] spi_topcliff_pch: support new device ML7213 > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:34:20AM +0900, Tomoya MORINAGA wrote: > > Hi Grant, > > > > On Wednesday, December 29, 2010 3:49 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > > >As previously discussed on this list, I would like to see > support for > > >multiple bus instances implemented differently. Rather > than storing > > >the spi_master instances in an array in the pci device > private data, > > >the pci device should register a separate platform_device for each > > >spi bus instance, and each of those bus instances should > get bound to > > >a topcliff_spi_bus driver which doesn't need to have any special > > >knowledge about how many spi_master instances actually exist. > > > > > >Basically, the way it is implemented in this patch isn't taking > > >advantage of the infrastructure and instance management > provided by > > >the driver model. > > > > I see. > > I will modify like your suggestion. > > Could you show the reference SPI driver using multi-instance ? > > In an multi-instance scenario, the spi driver is just a > plain-jane platform_driver. There isn't anything special > about it. Instead, the pci_driver becomes responsible to > register one or more platform devices for the child busses. > Much like one of the multifunction devices in drivers/mfd. > > As far as examples go, drivers/mfd/timberdale.c seems > reasonable, if a bit larger than what you need. > > g. > > > > > Thanks, > > --- > > Tomoya MORINAGA > > OKI SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ spi-devel-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spi-devel-general
