From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751625AbcE1U5i (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2016 16:57:38 -0400 Received: from 37-46-169-123.customers.ownit.se ([37.46.169.123]:51498 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849AbcE1U5h (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2016 16:57:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. To: Mark Brown , Frank Rowand References: <1464107960-10775-1-git-send-email-christer@weinigel.se> <20160524174140.GE11605@leverpostej> <5744BC76.9090403@gmail.com> <20160525092034.GE1337@leverpostej> <5745C5A3.6060202@gmail.com> <20160525174809.GA8206@sirena.org.uk> <5745F30B.2040605@gmail.com> <20160527183629.GO16172@sirena.org.uk> Cc: Mark Rutland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org From: Christer Weinigel Message-ID: <574A063D.5030700@weinigel.se> Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 22:57:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160527183629.GO16172@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/27/2016 08:36 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > Personally the way I parse this situation is that the kernel is taking > a look at what's in the DT and making an effort to present it usefully > in the running systems. Fixing our current interpretation in stone as > a supported thing when we don't have to makes it more cumbersome to > improve and discourages any efforts to do similar things in the > future. It is reasonable to provide and document something here but > when there's some fairly simple and obvious better things we could be > doing it should be those rather than the legacy stuff. So what are the "simple and obvious better things" that one can use instead? /Christer -- Have laptop, will travel. I'm a consultant looking for interesting jobs anywhere in the world. I'm an experienced software engineer with a solid understanding of hardware. Specialities: Linux, device drivers and embedded systems in general. Find me at www.weinigel.se.