Re: [PATCH] Documentation: dt: mtd: replace "nor-jedec" binding with "jedec,spi-nor"

[RafaÅ MiÅecki]

On 20 May 2015 at 23:35, Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:27:50AM +0200, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
>> On 19 May 2015 at 03:34, Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > So how about the following patch? It seems like we'll need to be able to
>> > ignore useless 'modalias' values in cases like this:
>> >
>> >         // modalias = "shinynewdevice"
>> >         compatible = "myvendor,shinynewdevice", "jedec,spi-nor";
>> >
>> > and also if somebody leaves off the entire shinynewdevice string:
>> >
>> >         // modalias = "spi-nor"
>> >         compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
>> >
>> > So we rework the spi-nor library to not reject "bad" names, and just
>> > fall back to autodetection, and we add the .of_match_table to properly
>> > catch all "jedec,spi-nor".
>>
>> That's nice but what about platforms using platform data instead of
>> DT? I would like to use some kind of "spi-nor" (with some prefix
>> *maybe*) for them too.
>
> For platform devices, you might as well just use the name of the driver,
> which is 'm25p80'. Isn't that how most platform devices are matched with
> drivers?

Yes and I think it's ugly because it keeps causing the warning about
read flash model not matching specified one (m25p80). Are you
seriously not going to allow platform stuff *clearly* request flash
model detection (JEDEC RDID OP)? Just because they don't use DT?

-- 
RafaÅ
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