Re: [RFC PATCH 06/10] spi: add support for ACPI reconfigure notifications

[Octavian Purdila]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:37:02PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>
>> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI)
>> +static int acpi_spi_table_load(struct device *dev, const void *data)
>> +{
>> +     struct spi_master *master = container_of(dev, struct spi_master, dev);
>> +
>> +     acpi_register_spi_devices(master);
>> +     return 0;
>> +}
>
> Why do we have a separate code path for this coompared to the initial
> startup?  The handling appears to be identical so it seems we should
> drive this from the ACPI code so we don't have to add this to every
> single bus with ACPI bindings.

Hi Mark,

I probably don't fully understand your question, but I don't see a way
of how we can create a new SPI device from generic ACPI code. For
example, in acpi_spi_add_device() we need the spi_master node so that
we can allocate the spi device.

The handling is identical because we don't have yet have a way to
identify what where the new nodes added when a new ACPI table /
overlay has been loaded, so we have to rescan the ACPI namespace under
each controller.