Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: add missing spi nodes

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 07:27:01AM -0500, Brian Masney wrote:

> We can't add a generic qcom,spidev compatible to the spidev driver since
> this is just a software abstraction. Instead, each type of device will
> need to have it's own compatible that uniquely describes the type of
> device. So you might have a compatible like qcom,spi-video-codec. There
> will need to be a DT binding added that describes the hardware. I suspect
> that a SPI device can simply be added to trivial-devices.yaml. Once the
> DT binding is accepted, the compatible can be added to the spidev.c
> driver. If an in-kernel driver is written in the future, then the 
> compatible can be moved from spidev to the new driver.

> Mark: Is my understanding above correct? If so, will it be a problem to
> get a compatible added to spidev.c if the corresponding userspace code is
> closed source and proprietary?

No restriction on what the userspace is.

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