Re: [PATCH resend] spi core: Provide means to instantiate devicesthrough sysfs

From: Mark Brown
Date: Sat Sep 22 2012 - 12:11:36 EST


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:51:20PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> The I2C core provides a means to instantiate devices from userspace
> using sysfs attributes. Provide the same mechanism for SPI devices.

So, unlike I2C this is only going to work for a subset of controllers -
anything that relies on GPIOs for chip select will need more data to add
the chip selects for example. This means I'm having a hard time getting
enthused about the idea, it seems like it might be a support burden.
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