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From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:48:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce532200-a18c-d618-7f73-6f6ac8f8522e@kontron.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715131033.GF5431@sirena.org.uk>

On 15.07.20 15:10, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:45:51PM +0200, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
>> On 15.07.20 13:36, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Hey, I proposed other solutions you didn't want to implement!
> 
>> Right, but you have to admit that the other solutions turned out to be
>> rather out of scope for someone like me who merely wants to use the spidev
>> driver.
> 
>> But I don't blame you. I'm now having a better idea of how things are (or
>> aren't) supposed to look like. So thanks for your patience!
> 
> I'm not sure platforms like this are a great fit for DT TBH - the
> trouble with DT is that it turns things into ABIs regardless of if it's
> really a finished thing, platform data based systems were a lot more
> flexible here.

I see your point. Still it seems like the overlays would provide a 
sufficient alternative in matters of flexibility. Raspberry Pi uses it 
for years, which made me assume that some generic loading API is 
available. But it seems like everything is RPi-specific and downstream.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-15 13:48 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
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 [this message]
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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