Hi Geert, Thanks for your clarification. So the rationale is to keep fixed the HW description (that make sense). If a "generic" driver is required, the specific device compatible statement shall be added in spidev like: { .compatible = "lineartechnology,ltc2488" }, And if later a more specific driver will be available, the previous line shall be removed. Can you please confirm my understanding? Bye. -- 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