On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Martin Sperl <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 30.04.2015, at 21:58, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> A big reason for that is that it's not in my inbox for me to review, >> these messages I flagged as unhelpful aren't going to help with that if >> only because I don't want to create the impression that such behaviour >> achieves results. > > What about implementing it like this: > echo -n “spi32761.4” > /sys/bus/spi/drivers/spidev/bind > > Would this be an acceptable solution? > > This is actually mentioned in Documentation/spi/spidev as a > possible option for the future - quote: > >> (Sysfs also supports userspace driven binding/unbinding of drivers to >> devices. That mechanism might be supported here in the future.) > > Not sure why it does not work right now (but it works for “real” > device-drivers), but I guess it has to do with compatibility checks. IIRC, PCI drivers support adding more compatible entries through /sysfs. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html