Re: [RFC PATCH v2 06/10] spi: add support for ACPI reconfigure notifications

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue May 03 2016 - 08:21:59 EST


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:37:57PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > There's more code here now than I remember but this all looks *really*
> > close to the DT code except for the OF_POPULATED flag that we set when
> > things are instantiated in DT. The duplication seems bad but the fact
> > that we're missing the flag worries me... do we have guarantees that
> > ACPI won't double register?

> We use the adev->flags.visited to check when a device has been already
> enumerated, and we skip registering a new SPI slave in that case.

OK, but the fact that I need to know that isn't exactly thrilling -
that's really the issue with the not quite duplication here. It's not
just if the code works but also the maintainability.

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