From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, Martin Sperl <kernel@martin.sperl.org>,
Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 10:20:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150513172028.GA18303@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150513171300.GD2761@sirena.org.uk>
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:13:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:37:40AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > You can easily bind drivers to devices today from userspace, why not
> > just use the built-in functionality you have today if you "know" that
> > there is no driver for this hardware.
>
> So, that was my original suggestion too but people were complaining that
> this wasn't a generally supported feature and requires specific support
> of some kind in the bus (which nobody posted a patch for).
I don't understand the complaint, it's a very "generally supported
feature" and has been there for a very long time for any bus that wants
to use it.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-13 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-12 20:33 [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 9:34 ` [PATCH] spi: Add option to bind spidev to all chipselects Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 10:16 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 10:40 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 11:05 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 11:26 ` [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices Mark Brown
2015-05-13 12:35 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 12:51 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 14:36 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 15:31 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 17:43 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 19:09 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 19:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-13 19:41 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 15:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 15:52 ` Michal Suchanek
2015-05-13 17:13 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 17:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2015-05-13 17:39 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 18:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 18:32 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 18:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 18:51 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 19:17 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 17:50 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 18:12 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-13 18:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-13 19:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-05-13 19:26 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-05-13 22:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-14 14:34 ` Mark Brown
2015-05-15 8:09 ` Maxime Ripard
2015-07-15 6:27 ` Lucas De Marchi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-28 17:22 Maxime Ripard
2014-04-29 18:37 ` Mark Brown
2014-04-30 18:06 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-01 1:18 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-01 22:36 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-01 23:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-02 16:55 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-05 4:17 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-05 7:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-05 13:57 ` Alexandre Belloni
2014-05-05 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-05-05 19:16 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-02 17:40 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-05 4:21 ` Maxime Ripard
2014-05-05 19:17 ` Mark Brown
2014-05-08 2:22 ` Maxime Ripard
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