linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20160524183256.GP8206@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 24 May 2016 19:32:56 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus
 number.

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 08:03:48PM +0200, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> On 05/24/2016 07:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > I'm not sure this is something we want to support at all, I can't 
> > immediately see anything that does this deliberately in the SPI
> > code and obviously the "bus number" is something of a Linux
> > specific concept which would need some explanation if we were going
> > to document it.  It's something I'm struggling a bit to see a
> > robust use case for that isn't better served by parsing sysfs,
> > what's the goal here?

> If this isn't something that should be in the Documentation/devicetree
>  because it's not generig enough, where should Linux-specific
> interpretations such as this be documented?

I'm not clear that we want to document this at all since I am not clear
that there is a sensible use case for doing it.  I did ask for one but
you've not articulated one in this reply.  I am much less gung ho than
Grant on this one, even as a Linux specific interface it seems very
legacy.

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (474 bytes)