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

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:49:13PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
>
>> If we really want to have a single path for ACPI enumeration we could
>> do that by using an ACPI SPI bridge driver or scan handlers after
>> extending the matching mechanisms. But we would still need to modify
>> the SPI subsystem and I don't think its worth it just to save a call
>> to acpi_register_spi_devices() from spi_register_master().
>
> It's not specifically for SPI, it's the fact that you're asking every
> single bus type which might be described in ACPI to handle both hotplug
> and coldplug paths separately.  Given that the code that's being added
> just seems like trivial boilerplate it seems like we're doing this
> wrong, we should be factoring this out so there's nothing bus types can
> get wrong.
>

AFAICS this is exactly the same case for DT: one code path for
coldplug and one for hotplug.

Which makes me think that it is not possible to have a single path for
both, or maybe its not worth it. Do I miss something obvious?
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