From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 23:21:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505042147.GE11606@lukather> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140502174048.GV3245@sirena.org.uk>
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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.
Maxime
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-28 17:22 [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices Maxime Ripard
2014-04-28 17:22 ` Maxime Ripard
[not found] ` <1398705774-12361-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-29 18:37 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-29 18:37 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20140429183758.GH15125-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-29 21:31 ` Martin Sperl
[not found] ` <24BF05CB-35FF-42E8-BE5C-A5E4E3D0C52A-TqfNSX0MhmxHKSADF0wUEw@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-30 18:14 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-04-30 20:00 ` Martin Sperl
[not found] ` <DA3907EB-0C1B-42FB-B288-9E33F6E24E3E-TqfNSX0MhmxHKSADF0wUEw@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-30 22:19 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-01 1:21 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-30 18:06 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-04-30 18:06 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-01 1:18 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-01 1:18 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20140501011811.GF3245-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-01 22:36 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-01 22:36 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-01 23:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdUWa1_n94sDvv=L_goc+SOnD9CAKi5DzifrY7GWYRdQmw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-02 16:55 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-02 16:55 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-05 4:17 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-05 7:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdWZ1rvC+tkT=CbfMwZtppyJ_KpzT7JrLd5k5P2oxzA+8g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-05 13:57 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-05-05 13:57 ` Alexandre Belloni
[not found] ` <20140505135701.GA21940-m++hUPXGwpdeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-05 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-05 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-05 19:16 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-02 17:40 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-02 17:40 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-05 4:21 ` Maxime Ripard [this message]
2014-05-05 19:17 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-05 19:17 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20140505191723.GK22111-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-08 2:22 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-08 2:22 ` Maxime Ripard
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2015-05-12 20:33 Maxime Ripard
2015-05-12 20:33 ` Maxime Ripard
[not found] ` <1431462804-30467-1-git-send-email-maxime.ripard-wi1+55ScJUtKEb57/3fJTNBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 11:26 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 11:26 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20150513112604.GI3066-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 12:35 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 12:35 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 12:51 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 12:51 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 14:36 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 14:36 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20150513143610.GT2761-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 15:31 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 15:31 ` Michal Suchanek
[not found] ` <CAOMqctTd7xG6mwX9AojTH4uaGDY06xOgDFUP437VDiE0rp0sXA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 17:43 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 17:43 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 19:09 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 19:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-13 19:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdWJ730G_a6=vQgs4gV837am5KKd7zEhU2FaHw2cpv=aRA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 19:41 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 19:41 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 15:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 15:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20150513153740.GC11677-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 15:52 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 15:52 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 17:13 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 17:13 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20150513171300.GD2761-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 17:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 17:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20150513172028.GA18303-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 17:39 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 17:39 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20150513173922.GF2761-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 18:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 18:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 18:32 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20150513183211.GK2761-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 18:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 18:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20150513183653.GA879-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 18:51 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 18:51 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20150513185149.GL2761-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 19:17 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 19:17 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 17:50 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 17:50 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 18:12 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 18:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 18:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20150513181736.GC16811-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-13 19:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-13 19:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-13 19:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 19:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 22:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 22:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20150513223331.GA26748-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-14 14:34 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-14 14:34 ` Mark Brown
2015-07-15 6:27 ` Lucas De Marchi
2015-07-15 6:27 ` Lucas De Marchi
2015-05-15 8:09 ` Maxime Ripard
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