From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755279AbaKSKH0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:07:26 -0500 Received: from bhuna.collabora.co.uk ([93.93.135.160]:59518 "EHLO bhuna.collabora.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755126AbaKSKHW (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:07:22 -0500 Message-ID: <546C6BD2.4020802@collabora.co.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:07:14 +0100 From: Javier Martinez Canillas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Anderson CC: Kukjin Kim , Simon Glass , Olof Johansson , linux-samsung-soc , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tomasz Figa , Mark Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: Add SPI flash node for Peach boards References: <1416246184-29071-1-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> <1416246184-29071-2-git-send-email-javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Doug, Thanks for your feedback. On 11/18/2014 06:50 PM, Doug Anderson wrote: > This is common practice in the Chrome OS tree, but we've gotten > pushback from upstream questioning about whether "spidev" is really a > physical device. See: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg29563.html > I see, I thought that it was a common practice in the mainline kernel too since I saw that many board DTS currently have a spidev node: $ git grep 'compatible = "spidev"' arch/arm/boot/dts/ | wc -l 19 > > I don't really have an answer for something better to do here but I > figured I'd at least bring up the point. > I wonder how the spidev user-space interface is supposed to be used when booting with Device Trees. Best regards, Javier