Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753064AbbENOe5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 10:34:57 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:39944 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751263AbbENOez (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 10:34:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:34:39 +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: <20150514143439.GP2761@sirena.org.uk> References: <1431462804-30467-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <20150513112604.GI3066@sirena.org.uk> <20150513153740.GC11677@kroah.com> <20150513175034.GC4004@lukather> <20150513181736.GC16811@kroah.com> <20150513192640.GF4004@lukather> <20150513223331.GA26748@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gS/sOEqITpbrYRmu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150513223331.GA26748@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: 2009 Lines: 51 --gS/sOEqITpbrYRmu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:33:31PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:26:40PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Our use case is this one: we want to export spidev files so that "dev > > boards" with a header that allows to plug virtually anything on it > > (Raspberry Pi, Cubieboards, Xplained, and all the likes) without > > having to change the kernel and / or device tree. > You want to do that on a bus that is not self-describing or dynamic? > I too want a pony. Please go kick the hardware engineer who designed > such a mess, we solved this problem 20+ years ago with "real" busses. The hardware engineers for some of these things did build enumeration in but none of them with any sort of community have been able to make it stick - the community just ends up ignoring the ID allocation. > > This patch is actually doing this: creating a new device for all the > > chipselects that are not in use that will be bound to the spidev > > driver. > I have yet to see a patch... That was the first message in the thread. --gS/sOEqITpbrYRmu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVVLJ6AAoJECTWi3JdVIfQr4EH/jXdIy5AH4gZdEtVXX7QTgUM DdQR2ces5OVnRpGNstaUDSoJ39TX4nqUJRShMHoIlLzH3qDfnr1Y/9Xf46N/vbXK tJGb+PuAYSGrH3Trk5ne/BsJ9AFe4pZZbyZAqoW6rgMaO32wLzuf2in1xvfYyVgP cijnZX7pi46oL3TPemgjcuQMaF7vh9BwGz2ZgCXYaAA+W5ZitcNhg74NuL2SZ4Lp dX0IfV3pRPsdgxOB0I0vZGpmtxaki9urzvaXC01WHAd4Zcp2TFUR2FqQYDNglI1I LowsITXKznOibGHpBYoR1MJUc+LxaUtL06yT2iB3ILNtrmfNfBacaW39so1Rx4Y= =NHPE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gS/sOEqITpbrYRmu-- -- 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/