[U-Boot] SPI and spi_cs_activate

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 29 January 2010 10:59:28 Wolfgang Wegner wrote:
> I am trying to get the spi_mmc driver by Robert Selberg and Hans Eklund
> to run on my new Coldfire board. (The driver was posted as a patch some
> time ago, clearly marked as not ready for mainline. I just did not figure
> out the correct search term to give the message ID.)
> 
> Now I am running into problems because the driver uses spi_cs_[de]activate,
> which is rather useless on coldfire which does automatic cs.
>
> Looking through other drivers' code it seems to me that spi_cs_[de]activate
> was never meant to be called from anybody else but some special SPI
> drivers that can not aotumatically control cs lines or for systems
> where SPI is done in software and so setting the appropriate GPIOs
> is handed over to special board-dependent code.

there are plenty of SPI controllers which allow the CS to be manually 
controlled.  this isnt a "special" driver.

the MMC/SPI driver was written on a Blackfin system.  it working on any other 
system is coincidental as a result of leveraging the common frameworks.  feel 
free to submit fixes.
-mike
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