Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 2015 10:20:28 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spi: Force the registration of the spidev devices |
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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:13:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 08:37:40AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > You can easily bind drivers to devices today from userspace, why not > > just use the built-in functionality you have today if you "know" that > > there is no driver for this hardware. > > So, that was my original suggestion too but people were complaining that > this wasn't a generally supported feature and requires specific support > of some kind in the bus (which nobody posted a patch for).
I don't understand the complaint, it's a very "generally supported feature" and has been there for a very long time for any bus that wants to use it.
greg k-h
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