Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934197AbbEMRNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2015 13:13:23 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:37972 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933957AbbEMRNU (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2015 13:13:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 18:13:00 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Maxime Ripard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hans de Goede , linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, Martin Sperl , Michal Suchanek Message-ID: <20150513171300.GD2761@sirena.org.uk> References: <1431462804-30467-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <20150513112604.GI3066@sirena.org.uk> <20150513153740.GC11677@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zfZAIAilk/YNj2Pr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150513153740.GC11677@kroah.com> X-Cookie: 13. ... r-q1 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: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices 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: 1470 Lines: 38 --zfZAIAilk/YNj2Pr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:37:40AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > You can easily bind drivers to devices today from userspace, why not > just use the built-in functionality you have today if you "know" that > there is no driver for this hardware. So, that was my original suggestion too but people were complaining that this wasn't a generally supported feature and requires specific support of some kind in the bus (which nobody posted a patch for). I have to confess I didn't investigate too deeply myself. --zfZAIAilk/YNj2Pr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVU4YbAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQkBIH/icM+QlwQBIqsC5uZTv3aBQN mn13EyneBNclFf8Hq1r4YBTmJGaHk0PrfrQjBCGodutHLpJB7OuMHOUpx/hDITZS cVTKU0csuDKDToXrMBBThRTxV7x5n17q/EhRiM2IBvMz0EuPWUoZ0A9yXSWTrBjV wrpgoHskKgENl1Js6cTV7yn2UL4Af5uReeScwoyEFnnqLAX7LcmVL2ULmsqXJDKl Pv80HKtBFS0TYS9DZ0Gee3XSwAqLISZktscrNlaSXpYxRGCAHjIKkSrbpzdH3tXn cQyPwJWWPE8P+6APrj+NaoPYBcGalS1JGgijrE8IJwAbeSnAKK3XQ34xrARmdVA= =FM7A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zfZAIAilk/YNj2Pr-- -- 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/