linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: xilinx: Use standard num-cs binding

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Message-ID: <20150331122428.GM2869@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:24:28 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, monstr@...str.eu,
	Sören Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: xilinx: Use standard num-cs binding

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:25:07PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 01:16 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Well, there's a lot of existing users to check and clean up some of
> > which currently rely on it which will take time to deal with.  Removing
> > it while some drivers rely on using it isn't ideal.

> We have spi-cadence driver in the kernel which uses num-cs and also
> is-decoded-cs and we can change it but the question still remains how
> to do it better.

Like I say just don't use num-cs, use a property which describes the
hardware.

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