Re: [PATCH v1] spi: fix client driver breakages when using GPIO descriptors

Linus Walleij
2020-11-24T15:22:03Z

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:41 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> What people think they were sold was the idea that they shouldn't have
> to write driver code or upstream things, something with more AML like
> capabilities (not realising that AML works partly because ACPI hugely
> constrains system design).

This makes a lot of sense.

I suppose what we need to think about is the bigger question of why
people/companies/managers are so worried about working upstream
that they will go to lengths to avoid it and jump at any chance of
raising a wall of abstraction between their internal development and
the in-kernel software development.

I think of this as vendor/community couples therapy or something,
there is some form of deep disconnect or mistrust going on at times
and having worked on both ends myself I would think I could
understand it but I can't.

Yours,
Linus Walleij