Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 May 2015 11:12:07 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/3] spidev: Add DT binding example. |
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On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 11:00:40PM +0200, Martin Sperl wrote:
> I will investigate the fine details, but I fear we may need some > “compatibility” magic similar to “new_id” in USB to make it work, > because it seems as if you can ONLY force a driver to bind if it > _is_ compatible...
I'm confused. What would the point of the functionality be if not to override the existing data, otherwise we'd already have bound the driver?
> But from what I can tell this functionality (mentioned in this article > by Greg) has not been moved into driver-core and bus, so we would need > to run our own version of it.
That seems like things are being done at the wrong level. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |