Re: [PATCH] SPI: MIPS: lantiq: adds spi-xway

[John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>]

On 22/08/12 20:59, Mark Brown wrote:
>> +       if (of_machine_is_compatible("lantiq,ase"))
>> > +               master->num_chipselect = 3;
>> > +       else
>> > +               master->num_chipselect = 6;
> This is very suspicious - why is this being done based on the machine
> rather than based on the IP?  Surely there can be machines with this SoC
> on which aren't compatible with whatever (reference?) board this is
> matching on.  I'd expect that the driver would have multiple compatible
> strings which it uses to distinguish the capabilities of the IP.
>
> Though actually the driver never reads this value so perhaps the code
> can just be deleted and we rely on the fact that if the /CS isn't
> physically present nobody's going to hook it up on a board so just
> always set it to 6?
>
Thanks for the review i will rework the driver, add a binding doc and
resend ...

is there a equivalent of of_machine_is_compatible for IP ?

John