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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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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