linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: Add the flag indicate to registe new device as children of master or not.

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Message-ID: <20121219090416.GK4985@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:04:16 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Jun Chen <jun.d.chen@...el.com>
Cc:	grant.likely@...retlab.ca, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bi Chao <chao.bi@...el.com>,
	spi-devel-general@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: Add the flag indicate to registe new device as
 children of master or not.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 04:44:03AM -0500, Jun Chen wrote:

> This spi_alloc_device function will be called in the spi_new_device
> function to alloc new device as the master. But other way, it is called
> by the of_register_spi_devices function to register new device as the
> children of the master. I will update changlog to add it. 

But why is this a bad thing?  You've said what's happening but not why
it's a problem.

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