On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:41:11PM +0530, Bhuvanchandra DV wrote: > On 04/20/2016 05:47 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > >The DT should describe the hardware so the DT should describe whatever > >device is connected to the spidev, what you're trying to do is have > >spidev bind to these new compatible strings. > The device which i was pointing earlier is the SPI master device(spiB.C) not > the external h/w device interfaced to it. Yes, DT will describe the h/w > interfaced on SPI master device(spiB.C). In case of spidev we are not > supposed to describe in DT as it is not a real h/w. The intention of this > patchset is to completely avoid spidev in DT and load it via sysfs new_id > file for selected SPI master device(spiB.C). This is the problem, you've not understood what spidev is. spidev is providing access to a slave device so it binds to the slave device.
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