Re: [PATCH RESEND] spi: spidev: Allow matching DT compatible strings from ACPI

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 06:23:38PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 04:07:52PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > If that's the case then it's definitely broken - we either always warn
> > or never warn, neither is good.

> For DT we warn if the device is used directly (by the node name) as
> previously. For ACPI we never warn because it is not possible to use the
> node name directly. We always require use of a proper compatible string.

> I don't see how that is broken.

So you're saying that it's not possible for ACPI to use anything
*except* an explicitly listed compatible string to bind?  What we want
to avoid is any ACPI tables that explicitly list spidev since that's a
total abstraction failure.

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