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Re: [PATCH 1/1] generic spidev devices must be registered

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On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 02:43:43PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:11:53PM +0200, Fabien Lahoudere wrote:
> > Adding spidev in the compatible list, let configure spidev from device tree
> > instead of C source code.

> I'm not keen on this.

> It ties the hardware description to today's use-case, and leaves the DT
> without information regarding the particuarl device. The binding is also
> written in terms of the userspace interface, which is backwards.

> So NAK to this as-is.

Indeed.  Fabien, please see the *extensive* and repeated previous
discussions of this topic.  Device tree is there to describe the
hardware, not the software you currently happen to be using on your
system.  Please also see the comments in the driver which explain why we
require a compatible string which is descriptive of the hardware.

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[PATCH 1/1] generic spidev devices must be registered Fabien Lahoudere <fabien.lahoudere@collabora.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 15:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] generic spidev devices must be registered Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-08-05 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/1] generic spidev devices must be registered Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-08-05 16:30 +0200

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