In message 200801240017.46171.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
drivers added for generic SPI support. My preference would be for you to expand the 'spi' command with something like:
'spi eeprom info'
i dont see how in the long run, this is any different from today. Wolfgang can still argue that the SPI flash is not an eeprom device, so "spi eeprom ..." is not appropriate. which means there is still no subsystem whatsoever for accessing SPI flashes.
You are right - I think "spi eeprom" is not a good choice - if it is an EEPROM, then the "eeprom" command should work, no matter what the actual bus interface is.
If the device is SPI flash, then why not call it like that, i. e.
spi flash info
Or spiflash info
to make it similar to the "nand" commands?
On the other hand, it might be still too shortsighted to tie this to the bus interface. For example, what about dataflash? As discussed many times before, we have similar issues with dataflash devices.
I don't have a good idea how to do it, but maybe this is a chance to get a good solution for NAND, dataflash, SPI flash and who knows what else?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk