Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] spi: Add HiSilicon v3xx SPI NOR flash controller driver

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 02:27:54PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 04:17:32PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:07 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 01:01:06PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> > > > On 13/01/2020 11:42, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > > > The idiomatic approach appears to be for individual board vendors
> > > > > to allocate IDs, you do end up with multiple IDs from multiple
> > > > > vendors for the same thing.
> 
> > > > But I am not sure how appropriate that same approach would be for some 3rd
> > > > party memory part which we're simply wiring up on our board. Maybe it is.
> 
> > > It seems to be quite common for Intel reference designs to assign
> > > Intel IDs to non-Intel parts on the board (which is where I
> > > became aware of this practice).
> 
> > Basically vendor of component in question is responsible for ID, but
> > it seems they simple don't care.
> 
> AFAICT a lot of the time it seems to be that whoever is writing
> the software ends up assigning an ID, that may not be the silicon
> vendor.

...which is effectively abusing the ACPI ID allocation procedure.

(And yes, Intel itself did it in the past — see badly created ACPI IDs
 in the drivers)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko