Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: Add HiSilicon v3xx SPI NOR flash controller driver

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jan 13 2020 - 09:17:45 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:07 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 01:01:06PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> > On 13/01/2020 11:42, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > The idiomatic approach appears to be for individual board vendors
> > > to allocate IDs, you do end up with multiple IDs from multiple
> > > vendors for the same thing.
>
> > But I am not sure how appropriate that same approach would be for some 3rd
> > party memory part which we're simply wiring up on our board. Maybe it is.
>
> It seems to be quite common for Intel reference designs to assign
> Intel IDs to non-Intel parts on the board (which is where I
> became aware of this practice).

Basically vendor of component in question is responsible for ID, but
it seems they simple don't care.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko