On 05/02/18 20:42, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Sat, 2018-02-03 at 08:31 +0000, Henry Gomersall wrote: >> On 02/02/18 18:58, Trent Piepho wrote: >>>> The clear use case for more flexibility in the system is around FPGA >>>> based SoCs (in my case a Zynq). In such a scenario the use of userspace >>>> is a natural complement to runtime configurable hardware blocks. It >>>> would really ease access to (at least somewhat) correct use of the >>>> driver if it could be recognised that the kernel might not actually need >>>> to know what's on the end of an SPI bus. >>> I've got a patch that adds "driver_override" to the SPI bus. This >>> already exists on the PCI bus, platform bus, and AMBA bus. >>> >> Thanks for that. What's the status of the patch currently? I can't see >> it on patchwork... >> >> Looking back at your earlier email you point out doing this through udev >> rules, which is IMO a good way to solve the problem > I'll need to send it again. > I'm curious what the state of this is now. Do we now have a "proper" way to use generic SPI devices through Trent's patches? Thanks, Henry
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