linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when manually binding driver

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Message-ID: <CAOMqctSp__GgTTN-+395k8=D2hPU-DuUPTBKAXMURV3OGG8HdA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 21:36:57 +0200
From:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-spi <linux-spi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers core: allow id match override when
 manually binding driver

On 1 July 2016 at 20:56, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com> wrote:
> On 1 July 2016 at 18:22, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 05:37:53PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>>> Can you, please, specify what problems this patch creates for other users
>>> and maintainability?
>>
>> To repeat yet again a major design goal for DT is to describe the
>> hardware rather than implementation details of the software you plan to
>> run on the system.  Not doing this breaks upgrades or changes in our
>> ideas of how we control a given bit of hardware.

Oh, and can you point out where in this patchset are implementation details
of the software I intend to run put in the devicetree?

I don't see any such thing here.

Thanks

Michal