Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devicetree - document using aliases to set spi bus number. | From | Christer Weinigel <> | Date | Tue, 24 May 2016 20:03:48 +0200 |
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On 05/24/2016 07:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >> Not having used devicetree that much it was surprisingly hard to >> figure out how to assign a stable bus number to a spi bus. Add >> a simple example that shows how to do that. > > I'm not sure this is something we want to support at all, I can't > immediately see anything that does this deliberately in the SPI > code and obviously the "bus number" is something of a Linux > specific concept which would need some explanation if we were going > to document it. It's something I'm struggling a bit to see a > robust use case for that isn't better served by parsing sysfs, > what's the goal here?
Well, that's how it works right now:
commit bb29785e0d6d150181704be2efcc3141044625e2 Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Date: Fri Dec 21 19:32:09 2012 +0000
spi/of: Use DT aliases for assigning bus number
> + if ((master->bus_num < 0) && master->dev.of_node) + > master->bus_num = of_alias_get_id(master->dev.of_node, "spi");
If this isn't something that should be in the Documentation/devicetree because it's not generig enough, where should Linux-specific interpretations such as this be documented?
/Christer
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