Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752268AbbEDKMj (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 06:12:39 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:49061 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752116AbbEDKMc (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 06:12:32 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 11:12:07 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Martin Sperl Cc: Michal Suchanek , "Eric D." , linux-sunxi , Jonathan Corbet , Hans de Goede , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Maxime Ripard , linux-spi Message-ID: <20150504101207.GR22845@sirena.org.uk> References: <20150428171738.GY22845@sirena.org.uk> <20150429174059.GQ22845@sirena.org.uk> <20150429180659.GT22845@sirena.org.uk> <20150430195829.GG22845@sirena.org.uk> <20150503095917.GQ22845@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d9IUiXSPN0boPwbw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: Your present plans will be successful. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.94.161 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/3] spidev: Add DT binding example. X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1698 Lines: 46 --d9IUiXSPN0boPwbw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 11:00:40PM +0200, Martin Sperl wrote: > I will investigate the fine details, but I fear we may need some > =E2=80=9Ccompatibility=E2=80=9D magic similar to =E2=80=9Cnew_id=E2=80=9D= in USB to make it work, > because it seems as if you can ONLY force a driver to bind if it > _is_ compatible... I'm confused. What would the point of the functionality be if not to override the existing data, otherwise we'd already have bound the driver? > But from what I can tell this functionality (mentioned in this article > by Greg) has not been moved into driver-core and bus, so we would need > to run our own version of it. That seems like things are being done at the wrong level. --d9IUiXSPN0boPwbw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVR0X2AAoJECTWi3JdVIfQkOMH/iGj1jKuYwYajHd6xU/OvtZs VEqJZsicuV7WuDU2WhRs6J3Pd7qxBXcUI/3mvdQ1EdhzdtF62Thud5vmgP/DPOzo wYpiPHwRHZtpUnTTC7NAKNubPgW09FFOFtgXjUKWFg/Nn+SBL+DOSThwIZXe63Hu +SGzihM/RN3XOrc0GI4RNypVU23HHEIdJKziAKYMn7vYnqRhkO7f4QP8Lxfrv7Xr LTQSZihA1glu//kQk+wMG6ZUEhZY4yegkdI9MWq8JLOtAtVfQOw9NOm0xEJTDDSd zNlM/LlA/gOMI2vrfLjEhwFbcbNcNOUvqtUT1j0xJcw7cP6KyERSmkokG3KwJKk= =qFHp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d9IUiXSPN0boPwbw-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/