Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/3] spidev: Add DT binding example.

[Hans de Goede]

Hi Mark,

On 27-04-15 11:36, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 04:14:33PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > On 26 April 2015 at 14:51, Maxime Ripard
>
> > > No, you add a compatible for the device that is connected to the bus
> > > through that slot.
>
> > There is no device connected in the slot by design. The slot is there
> > for connecting random stuff you find in your mailbox or other drawers
> > and boxes.
>
> You should be using device tree overlays to describe what actually ended
> up getting connected there.

Have you seen my mail about the raspberry pi use-case? Using dt-overlays
simply is not an acceptable answer there. There are legitimate use-cases
for a "generic spi bus" concept with the bus only being accessible via
spidev.

Blocking this use-case because you do not believe it is a valid use-case
is not going to help, this will just lead to the custom distros these
boards are shipping doing some ugly hack, which is not what we want
IMHO.

I hope that with the raspberry pi 2 the raspberry pi-s will eventually
go fully devicetree / multi-platform kernel so that they can be supported
ootb by distros which only want to ship a single multi-platform kernel
like Debian, but that does require us to solve problems like this one.

Regards,

Hans
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