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Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi/spi-altera: Allow to explicitely override bus
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 04:52:14PM +0100, Frederic LAMBERT wrote:

> Yes, that seems simple said like that.
> It was thus more simple for me, at that time, to modify a specific driver
> for a specific port (Nios2), than to modify a core used by every one.
> Question of time, and confidence in my own capacities :-).
> The other point being the change acceptation (and the time it takes) by the
> community...

In this case doing something generic would be easier to get merged
(modulo the "don't do that" issue) - people are being a lot more wary
about driver specific changes that should be generic than they used to
be.