Re: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 11:21:47PM -0500, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:40:48AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > i2c-dev works great in these cases, because you always have access to
> > > all the bus, and all the devices, except if the device is already used
> > > by someone. The patch I suggested is an attempt to mimic this.

> > It seems better to implement something like this at the device model
> > level, provide a way to have a default UIO driver for anything on a
> > given bus.  I don't see anything bus specific apart from saying what the
> > default driver to use is and it avoids the icky code fiddling about with
> > what devices are bound and the races that might be involved duplicated
> > in individual buses.

> Hmmm, yes, that's probably a great long-term way of dealing with this,
> but I don't see it happening soon.

Isn't the code in the patch that started this thread roughly what's
needed, just done in a SPI specific way instead of a generic way?

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