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authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>2007-12-04 23:45:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-12-05 09:21:18 -0800
commit3f86f14c0fc9fdb0984e64209df2f47895a07151 (patch)
tree9dd400b97efa5260c31044efd5687a4d91c04bb7 /drivers
parent068f4070868c801c7d7aa1ae1193c1c854193545 (diff)
spi: at25 driver is for EEPROM not FLASH
Add comment to at25 driver that it's for EEPROM chips, not FLASH chips ... the AT25 series has both types of chip, and sometimes they're even pin-compatible. The command sets are different, as is the treatment of erasure. (FLASH needs explicit erasure, but with EEPROM it's implicit.) Note that all vendors seem to have this same confusion in their *25* series SPI memory parts. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/spi/at25.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/spi/at25.c b/drivers/spi/at25.c
index e007833cca59..290dbe99647a 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/at25.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/at25.c
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@
#include <linux/spi/eeprom.h>
+/*
+ * NOTE: this is an *EEPROM* driver. The vagaries of product naming
+ * mean that some AT25 products are EEPROMs, and others are FLASH.
+ * Handle FLASH chips with the drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c driver,
+ * not this one!
+ */
+
struct at25_data {
struct spi_device *spi;
struct mutex lock;