On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 11:21:47PM -0500, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:40:48AM -0700, Mark Brown wrote: > > > i2c-dev works great in these cases, because you always have access to > > > all the bus, and all the devices, except if the device is already used > > > by someone. The patch I suggested is an attempt to mimic this. > > It seems better to implement something like this at the device model > > level, provide a way to have a default UIO driver for anything on a > > given bus. I don't see anything bus specific apart from saying what the > > default driver to use is and it avoids the icky code fiddling about with > > what devices are bound and the races that might be involved duplicated > > in individual buses. > Hmmm, yes, that's probably a great long-term way of dealing with this, > but I don't see it happening soon. Isn't the code in the patch that started this thread roughly what's needed, just done in a SPI specific way instead of a generic way?
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