Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/3] spidev: Add DT binding example.

Michal Suchanek
2015-05-04T08:37:22Z

Hello,

On 3 May 2015 at 23:00, Martin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org> wrote:
>
>> On 03.05.2015, at 11:59, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>> Hrm, yes - that should work. I'd ask Greg, that's not something the bus
>> implements.
>
> It is still slightly more “complicated” from a distribution perspective,
> but if that is what makes it a “clean” solution, then that is the way to
> go forward.
>
> I will investigate the fine details, but I fear we may need some
> “compatibility” magic similar to “new_id” in USB to make it work,
> because it seems as if you can ONLY force a driver to bind if it
> _is_ compatible...
>
> See also here: https://lwn.net/Articles/143397/
>
> But from what I can tell this functionality (mentioned in this article
> by Greg) has not been moved into driver-core and bus, so we would need
> to run our own version of it.

Maybe you could make the spidev driver magically bind to any CS to
which no other driver is bound? This would also probably solve the
problem with the device going away when the driver is unbound if that
still happens.

Thanks

Michal