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

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Message-ID: <574A063D.5030700@weinigel.se>
Date:	Sat, 28 May 2016 22:57:33 +0200
From:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....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 05/27/2016 08:36 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> Personally the way I parse this situation is that the kernel is taking 
> a look at what's in the DT and making an effort to present it usefully 
> in the running systems. Fixing our current interpretation in stone as 
> a supported thing when we don't have to makes it more cumbersome to 
> improve and discourages any efforts to do similar things in the 
> future. It is reasonable to provide and document something here but 
> when there's some fairly simple and obvious better things we could be 
> doing it should be those rather than the legacy stuff. 

So what are the "simple and obvious better things" that one can use instead?

   /Christer

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