Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:34:37 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Fix so the module is autoloaded when built as external |
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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 04:34:35PM +0100, Gustav Wiklander wrote: > From: Gustav Wiklander <gustavwi@axis.com> > > The spi framework sets the modalias for the spi device to belong in > either the acpi device table or the SPI device table. It can never > be in the OF table. Therefore the spidev driver should populate the > spi device table rather than the OF table. > > NOTE: platform drivers and i2c drivers support aliases in the > OF device table.
Why is this a good solution rather than ensuring the the OF IDs can be used directly? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |