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Hello Doug,

On 11/19/2014 06:19 PM, Doug Anderson wrote:
>>
>> I wonder how the spidev user-space interface is supposed to be used
>> when booting with Device Trees.
> 
> OK.  Please don't take my comments as a NAK on this patch.  I should
> have done the same grep myself before sending--sorry.  I just
> remembered the old conversation and looked for that instead.
>

Ok, let's see what others say. At the very least documentation about the
spidev DT binding should be added to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/
 
> If the convention is to use "spidev" like this then I guess we're OK.
> I do wish it was a little more like "i2c" myself where you could get a
> direct access interface no matter what driver was bound underneath
> (and also if no drivers were bound underneath).  ...but I could just
> be naive.  ;)
> 

+1

> -Doug
> 

Best regards,
Javier