From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933509AbaEFA6P (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 20:58:15 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:58012 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933119AbaEFA6N (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2014 20:58:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 12:16:02 -0700 From: Mark Brown To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Maxime Ripard , linux-spi , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Alexandre Belloni Message-ID: <20140505191602.GJ22111@sirena.org.uk> References: <1398705774-12361-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> <20140429183758.GH15125@sirena.org.uk> <20140430180609.GC3000@lukather> <20140501011811.GF3245@sirena.org.uk> <20140501223629.GJ3000@lukather> <20140505041721.GD11606@lukather> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mPTHnM80CEnHQ2WJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Cookie: You are standing on my toes. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.9.110.15 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 --mPTHnM80CEnHQ2WJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:10:43AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Maxime Ripard > > Not really, because you can't declare a spidev device in the DT. > Yes you can. I've done it before. > See also "git grep -w spidev -- arch/arm/*/dts/". It is technically possible but it is a bad idea that should not get past review - it's putting a specific bit of Linux implementation detail about how we want to to control the relevant device at this specific time into the DT. --mPTHnM80CEnHQ2WJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTZ+NvAAoJELSic+t+oim9tuUP/1jdg2G0cYhlmZhdbcJYV5Aq O470U76PXUzxP7qUh9VTogVOzYzJ+MvqYQfy5esPyScb+npZH9QgX7iAJtLg7xou LPYohLA8ll5jvBf8ZSY56ZfJ7pssxVyl4YjfuTeKrYUL/u+jDOWMDwg3JzZS15Uq C0BgxBZKuCPKufnKXMC1dl1r/0mWLNYRfH0QScgwO5FmzeSVARh9G3yXIP/WpRHt M8QcaJoZXn7LEA2Bs/TyYhOldqcDYmhnDyK0PECN9C4HvlKcKlMLXXyopcp12D4k nOw87G6zlaZZlJFFudEIdDSi8sCGTYwbNHzNRZvVQmfP4omFRB0+ZN/uNEMdK87Z L4DFlFdcT6mNI1sQgaVelRT/5mvYKV9VD0/2niy8Zo6kvcHXpwP9dkyF7c/LO5TX fZREUyexMXFdEIbgBK832Y4lZLUolR/QWm+WAVBIb4Gox61WeyOpYJGlKWIUm9Gn qh9NRSzYa8I9mnxfG+yZhVS+qdaKfqO4vFMn4XavjKeFR55lefcb8TzlYiNJeBnh RMHdqY4tqMdG/12ezkaTpFVIqbNtW1iZm69mAT6EsXIXhyPK+fOjxGBFYWwA1RYV Q5iDs6Cmso18qAecbN6TuS55i3cvw6vOtuE6E5tQqB5213Ggx6fvnikXUMupufEi sShe28xWprbOP6dpK+Jx =RFcP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mPTHnM80CEnHQ2WJ--