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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Alexandre Mergnat <amergnat@baylibre.com>
Cc: broonie@kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, matthias.bgg@gmail.com,
	robh+dt@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] spi: spidev: add new mediatek support
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:44:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2aa2ff64cfd3b5ccd1342873fffa6cb4@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFGrd9qXL-u4XzG9MLK2zbKoDudhTYpr-gJaZPjbysJ9Fo2gnQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Am 2023-01-23 10:37, schrieb Alexandre Mergnat:
> Le ven. 20 janv. 2023 à 09:20, Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> a écrit 
> :
>> 
>> From: Alexandre Mergnat <amergnat@baylibre.com>
>> 
>> > Add the "mediatek,genio" compatible string to support Mediatek
>> > SPI controller on the genio boards.
>> 
>> What is the use case of having the spidev? What if I want to
>> connect a device with a linux driver to it? It seems like you
>> just want to expose the SPI bus on the pin header. There was a
>> similar discussion for a mikrobus connector [1].
>> 
> Yes I want to expose the SPI on the pin header for two reasons:

Then "mediatek,genio" doesn't really describe the hardware, does it?
If you read that linked thread, NXP was also trying exposing the SPI
bus on a pin header. IMHO this is just misusing the userspace spi-dev.

That being said, exposing something on a pinheader (or on a standardized
connector) seems like a common thing and we should be working towards
a good solution. I still think Robs proposal for the mikrobus connector
makes also sense for your case.

-michael

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-19 16:28 [PATCH 0/2] Add MediaTek MT8365 SPI support Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-19 16:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: mediatek: add spidev support for mt8365-evk board Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-19 16:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] spi: spidev: add new mediatek support Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-19 16:39   ` Mark Brown
2023-01-19 16:40   ` Matthias Brugger
2023-01-19 16:49   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-01-19 19:18     ` Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-20  7:44       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-01-20  7:58         ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-01-20  7:47       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-01-23 10:06         ` Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-23 15:55           ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-01-20  8:20   ` Michael Walle
2023-01-23  9:37     ` Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-23 10:44       ` Michael Walle [this message]
2023-01-23 14:57         ` Alexandre Mergnat
2023-01-23 12:19       ` Mark Brown
2023-01-23 15:07         ` Alexandre Mergnat

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