Re: [PATCH] spidev: Make probe to fail early if a spidev compatible is used

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Hello Mark,

On 11/23/21 15:55, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 09:32:32AM +0100, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 11/19/21 08:40, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
>>> Not this affects also devices that use
> 
>>> 	compatible = "myvender,devicename", "spidev";
> 
>> This is indeed a corner case and I'm less sure what the kernel should do
>> about it. I just learned now that of_device_is_compatible() return value
> 
> TBH I feel like that falls into the same bucket as any other uses of
> spidev so I'm not overly worried.  Grepping around it looks like we have
> no examples of this in tree, only a few plain spidevs in DTs for older
> platforms that were most likely converted from board files and *probably*
> aren't too relevant at this point.
>

Agreed.
 
>> Or just consider DT nodes with a general "spidev" compatible string to
>> also not be valid. I would lean towards this one I think.
> 
> Yes, I think so.  Your other options are worth exploring if it turns out
> to be an issue but hopefully it's not.
>

I think that's a good plan.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat