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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] Export SPI and OF module aliases in missing drivers
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:50:50 +0200
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Hello Brian,

On 08/20/2015 11:11 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:07:13AM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Patches #1 and #2 solves a), patches #3 to #8 solves b) and patches
> 
> ^^^ I'm dying to know how this sentence ends :)
>

Sigh, I did some last minute restructuring of the cover letter and
seems I missed a sentence. I meant to said:

"and patches #9 to #17 solves c)."
 
>> Patch #18 changes the logic of spi_uevent() to report an OF modalias if
>> the device was registered using OF. But this patch is included in the
>> series only as an RFC for illustration purposes since changing that
>> without first applying all the other patches in this series, will break
>> module autoloading for the drivers of devices registered using OF but
>> that lacks an of_match_table. I'll repost patch #18 once all the patches
>> in this series have landed.
> 
> On a more productive note, the patches I've looked at look good to me.
> The missing aliases are a problem enough that should be fixed (i.e.,
> part (b)). I'll leave the SPI framework changes to others to comment on.
>

Great, thanks a lot for your feedback.
 
> Brian
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America