Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 May 2014 23:21:47 -0500 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices |
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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:40:48AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote: > > i2c-dev works great in these cases, because you always have access to > > all the bus, and all the devices, except if the device is already used > > by someone. The patch I suggested is an attempt to mimic this. > > It seems better to implement something like this at the device model > level, provide a way to have a default UIO driver for anything on a > given bus. I don't see anything bus specific apart from saying what the > default driver to use is and it avoids the icky code fiddling about with > what devices are bound and the races that might be involved duplicated > in individual buses.
Hmmm, yes, that's probably a great long-term way of dealing with this, but I don't see it happening soon.
Maxime
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