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SubjectRe: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/3] spidev: Add DT binding example.
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.
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