Re: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices

[Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>]

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:06:09AM -0700, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37:58AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Why can we not handle this by using sysfs to bind spidev to the
> > device?

> I just tried it, and apparently, you can't really use this, since spi
> devices are created from the device tree (or ACPI) whenever the master
> registers.

Can you be more specific as to what the issue is here?  If we actually
have a specific kernel driver for a device I would strongly expect that
we would want to use it and not spidev, if we don't have one I don't see
the issue.

> It doesn't really work either for a device that would be bound to a
> driver, that you unbind, and then try to bind to spidev instead. It
> looks like the device is released whenever you unbind it, so you can't
> really use it afterwards.

I guess this is the issue...  what exactly is the use case here?  I
would only expect spidev to be used if there is no in kernel driver for
a device.

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