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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: SPI devices and OF
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On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Kumar Gala wrote:
> I don't think this is a good idea for SPI devices. =A0The effort vs =A0
> reward isn't worth it. =A0The simple fact that the 'chip select' =A0
> mechanism ends up being board specific is too much of a pain to =A0
> figure out how to deal with in the device tree. =A0I think its ok if we =
=A0
> put information about the controller in the tree, but trying to do =A0
> the devices as well at this point doesn't seem like its much of a win.
>=20

I'm not following your argumentation. If the chip select is board specific,
isn't the device tree for that board _exactly_ the place where that
information should be? Where else would you get it from?

	Arnd <><