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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>
To: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>,
	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: Add SPI flash node for Peach boards
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:07:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546C6BD2.4020802@collabora.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD=FV=Xkei_wxa3jWb8bPvuynbSyq4o=ezjVD0+e04aOPCAM+Q@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-19 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-17 17:43 [PATCH 0/3] ARM: dts: Add spidev nodes for Exynos Chromebooks Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-11-17 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: Add SPI flash node for Peach boards Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-11-18 17:50   ` Doug Anderson
2014-11-19 10:07     ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2014-11-19 17:19       ` Doug Anderson
2014-11-19 17:29         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-11-19 17:47         ` Mark Brown
2014-11-19 17:59           ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-11-17 17:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] ARM: dts: Add spidev registration to exynos5250-snow Javier Martinez Canillas
2014-11-17 17:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Enable user mode SPI device support Javier Martinez Canillas

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