what is diffrencce between direct register accessing vs hal.instance?? for example: SPI2->SR; //direct register accessing hspi2.Instance->SR; // hal.instance register accessing

[uhaid.1]

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[Piranha]

This has nothing to do with STM32 and even MCUs in general. Only learning the C language can help:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cprogramming/index.htm

[waclawek.jan]

The latter allows you to change mind and switch to a different SPI painlessly (this may be arguably rare).

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JW​

[Piranha]

#define SPI_MOTOR SPI2
 
SPI_MOTOR->SR;

This will do the same.