lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Nov]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: spi: OF module autoloading is still broken
From
Date
Hello Mark,

On 11/16/2015 02:51 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 02:26:49PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 11/16/2015 10:53 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>>> What I don't really understand here is why we've decided to push all
>>> this stuff into the subsystems, it seems like if we're managing to do
>>> the matching based on the compatible we really ought to be able to have
>>> the core figure out the uevents for us too. I need to go have a look at
>>> that...
>
>> There is already a set of generic OF uevents that are reported by the core
>> but IIUC those are not used by udev. Please take a look to of_device_uevent()
>> in drivers/of/device.c and dev_uevent() that calls it in drivers/base/core.c.
>
> I know what the current situation is, my point is that I don't
> understand why we would choose to do that ("What I don't really
> understand here...").
>

Got it, sorry for misunderstanding you. I also don't know the answer FWIW.

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-11-16 19:21    [W:0.063 / U:0.060 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site