From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753158AbcEYNIe (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 09:08:34 -0400 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:37550 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751762AbcEYNIc (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 09:08:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 14:08:18 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Mark Rutland Cc: Christer Weinigel , Frank Rowand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20160525130818.GY8206@sirena.org.uk> References: <1464107960-10775-1-git-send-email-christer@weinigel.se> <20160524174140.GE11605@leverpostej> <5744BC76.9090403@gmail.com> <20160525092034.GE1337@leverpostej> <20160525103810.GU8206@sirena.org.uk> <57458A64.2090901@weinigel.se> <20160525123423.GL1337@leverpostej> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AAxWdR3COjAeVN+/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160525123423.GL1337@leverpostej> X-Cookie: Vitamin C deficiency is apauling. User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a01:348:6:8808:fab::3 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. 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 --AAxWdR3COjAeVN+/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:34:24PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:20:04PM +0200, Christer Weinigel wrote: > > Does everything have to be so damn difficult? > With the varied hardware that exists, and the constant expansion of the > set of things which exist, there is very little that is simple any more. > Things which are simple today can become alarming non-simple tomorrow, > with only minor changes. So unfortunately, yes. > I appreciate that it can feel like all the feedback has been negative, > and that can be especially annoying given that you did not write the > code in question. Please be aware that we are trying to work in your > best interests, along with the best interests of many others who are > using this code and binding today, or may in future. > Specification work is a difficult, tiring process for all involved, for > anything meaningful. Right, this is one of the costs that the community decided to take on when it decided to move away from platform devices to push everything into DT as an ABI. Things that are fine as platform data internal to the kernel aren't so good as OS neutral ABIs. --AAxWdR3COjAeVN+/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXRaPBAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQ0LMH/iA2e3jH9L01airvUMPoDq4o C0bGcWZAvtGw93Ca5mF1Egx+bpP9Zs6A4yj8VrLp+jW5paiL6brEkx0si8ckXX/t 3hqkSWQAz/nPHNZrDTmbhm73sLSnwVY8bG8UN78P6/v2r40HRS15dDUG13ZWGRJT zUlY3MjJJVEx8PahKLTxhtCxB7sdqcZgMtpEi17tvGkdODeVFAj9R86+nYkI/YPd kEGgYueObh6i3V4ulLiwjwRPIJ3iJqKsQZU0fZZ3zAVv378OlmVbFIrh1K3Qorjs /pTFrp/XO3qYx3ASygRI2QuXblFTDH103QwDUaO2pBsaNhm1WMl7xN4d1Y4CCjg= =LWdx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AAxWdR3COjAeVN+/--