Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: spidev: add new mediatek support

[Alexandre Mergnat]

Le lun. 23 janv. 2023 à 13:19, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:37:58AM +0100, Alexandre Mergnat wrote:
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> > Yes I want to expose the SPI on the pin header for two reasons:
> > - It's an Evaluation Kit board, I believe exposing SPI helps new
> > customers to try/understand it.
>
> That's not how this works.  Anyone connecting something to the
> SPI header will need to update the DT to reflect whatever they
> have connected, if that is something that should be controlled
> with spidev then they should add the compatible for that thing
> to the driver.  If that is something that has a regular driver
> then the regular driver will be used.

Got it. I think this series should be dropped then. If someone needs
the SPI, then he should use overlay (or modify the DTS locally).
I thought I could use spidev to bring SPI into the userspace, to help
future users play with it ("/dev/spidev0.0").