Re: [PATCH] spi: Add option to bind spidev to all chipselects

[Maxime Ripard]

Hi,

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 09:34:41AM -0000, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> Bypass the check if CS is in use for spidev devices if CONFIG_SPIDEV_SHADOW is
> set.  Rename spidev devices to avoid sysfs conflict.
> 
> This allows dynamically loading SPI device overlays or communicating
> with SPI devices configured by a kernel driver from userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@xxxxxxxxx>

Output from checkpatch:
total: 2 errors, 4 warnings, 4 checks, 157 lines checked

...

I told you a few times already to run checkpatch before sending your
patches, apparently you make a point at ignoring me. Fine.

That being said, I'm not sure this is the right approach, or at least,
it doesn't solve anything. If SPIDEV_SHADOW is not set, you will still
have the same issue with addition of new devices on previously unused
chip selects, and where we have an spidev device now.

What I think we should do is, when a new device is created, we just
lookup the modalias of the spi_device associated to it.

If that modalias is "spidev", then unregister the spidev device,
register the new device, you're done. If not, return an error.

On the SPIDEV_SHADOW stuff itself, I'm not sure this is such a good
idea. There's a good chance it will break the driver by doing stuff
behind its back, possibly in a way that will harm the whole kernel,
and it's something we usually try to avoid.

Maxime

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