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

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Message-ID: <20160525130818.GY8206@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 25 May 2016 14:08:18 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	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 Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:34:24PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:20:04PM +0200, Christer Weinigel wrote:

> > Does everything have to be so damn difficult?

> With the varied hardware that exists, and the constant expansion of the
> set of things which exist, there is very little that is simple any more.
> Things which are simple today can become alarming non-simple tomorrow,
> with only minor changes. So unfortunately, yes.

> I appreciate that it can feel like all the feedback has been negative,
> and that can be especially annoying given that you did not write the
> code in question. Please be aware that we are trying to work in your
> best interests, along with the best interests of many others who are
> using this code and binding today, or may in future.

> Specification work is a difficult, tiring process for all involved, for
> anything meaningful.

Right, this is one of the costs that the community decided to take on
when it decided to move away from platform devices to push everything
into DT as an ABI.  Things that are fine as platform data internal to
the kernel aren't so good as OS neutral ABIs.

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