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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Add compatible for external SPI ports on Kontron boards
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:29:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714192907.GJ4900@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2eb6971b-7ea4-c9c8-5452-6f4b17e8860a@kontron.de>

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:54:15AM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote:

> It would still be quite nice to benefit from the flexibility of DT overlays
> not only for the SPI use case. But before I come up with any custom
> solution, for now I will rather have the device in the DT statically.

> I just wonder if I need to keep the DT node for the device in a separate
> patch in our own tree, or if a node with a custom compatible string like for
> example "kontron,user-spi" would be accepted upstream, without a matching
> driver?

I'm having a hard time getting enthusiastic about it TBH - can you not
just use spidev and live with the warning?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-14 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-02 14:18 [PATCH] spi: spidev: Add compatible for external SPI ports on Kontron boards Schrempf Frieder
2020-07-02 14:25 ` Mark Brown
2020-07-02 14:46   ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-02 14:57     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-02 16:04       ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-02 15:07     ` Mark Brown
2020-07-02 16:24       ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-13 13:19         ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-13 15:11           ` Mark Brown
2020-07-14  8:54             ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-14 19:29               ` Mark Brown [this message]
2020-07-15  7:26                 ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-15 11:36                   ` Mark Brown
2020-07-15 11:45                     ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-15 13:10                       ` Mark Brown
2020-07-15 13:48                         ` Frieder Schrempf
2020-07-15 13:51                           ` Mark Brown
2020-07-15 19:06             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-16  7:53               ` Frieder Schrempf

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