Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Fix so the module is autoloaded when built as external

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Jan 04 2021 - 16:35:46 EST


On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 04:34:35PM +0100, Gustav Wiklander wrote:
> From: Gustav Wiklander <gustavwi@xxxxxxxx>
>
> The spi framework sets the modalias for the spi device to belong in
> either the acpi device table or the SPI device table. It can never
> be in the OF table. Therefore the spidev driver should populate the
> spi device table rather than the OF table.
>
> NOTE: platform drivers and i2c drivers support aliases in the
> OF device table.

Why is this a good solution rather than ensuring the the OF IDs can be
used directly?

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