From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752941AbcEZB4R (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 21:56:17 -0400 Received: from 37-46-169-123.customers.ownit.se ([37.46.169.123]:60386 "EHLO zoo.weinigel.se" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751427AbcEZB4O (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2016 21:56:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. To: Rob Herring References: <1464107960-10775-1-git-send-email-christer@weinigel.se> <20160524172045.GN8206@sirena.org.uk> <57449784.4070108@weinigel.se> <20160524183256.GP8206@sirena.org.uk> <5744E51A.1040506@gmail.com> <20160525174932.GA10753@rob-hp-laptop> <5745E9B6.5090204@gmail.com> <20160525184442.GE8206@sirena.org.uk> <57464D0A.1030706@weinigel.se> Cc: Mark Brown , Frank Rowand , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-spi@vger.kernel.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" From: Christer Weinigel Message-ID: <574657BB.6070300@weinigel.se> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 03:56:11 +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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/26/2016 03:44 AM, Rob Herring wrote: > Lovely. "Here's something that's simple and useful for users. Let's > break it". What part of "we do not break userspace" do you not > understand? Because that would be a user visible change. > The other saying is "if it is not upstream, it doesn't exist." That > said, I don't think we should remove it. Maybe some time later, but > first we need a suitable alternative. Huh? Commit bb29785e0d6d, which added support for assigning spi bus numbers via devicetree aliases, has been in the upstream Linux kernel since v3.9 which was released over three years ago. /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.