Hello Nikolaus,
On 02/01/2017 05:20 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Hi Dmitry, Javier,
Am 29.01.2017 um 19:25 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller hns@goldelico.com:
Hi Dmitry,
Am 29.01.2017 um 19:01 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com:
On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:39:39AM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Hi Dmitry,
Am 28.01.2017 um 20:35 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:53:21PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Fix module table so that the driver is loaded if compiled as module and requested by DT.
I believe I already replied to a similar patch: we alreadyhave necessary aliases in this driver, we need to fix module loading to use it.
Yes, you did comment on [PATCH v6 7/8] (19 Nov 2016):
We really need to fix it between spi/i23c core and module utils instead of keeping adding duplicate IDs all over drivers. We already have OF module device table containing the same data, we should be able to use it.
And Javier Martinez Canillas replied (23 Nov 2016):
Agreed, unfortunately until the I2C and SPI core are changed to properly report OF modaliases, we will have to keep adding these duplicated IDs.
And changing the I2C and SPI core isn't trivial since it could break a lot of drivers that rely on a platform modalias being reported (i.e: no OF device IDs present in the drivers even when are registered via DT).
Therefore I didn't see a need to change it.
I agree that changing I2C and SPI core is not trivial, however this is no reason for piling up workarounds in all drivers. Are you seriously advocating going though *every* driver and copying OF data into I2C/SPI instead of doing the right thing and fixing the root of the issue?
If you prefer to have this done (and I agree it would be a tiny improvement), please do it for us all. But please after merging this workaround.
Have we been lucky to find someone who is able and willing to work on this?
As said, changing the core is trivial. A RFC patch is [0].
The problem is how to make sure that this change won't cause regressions in existing drivers.
There was particularly tricky for the spi-nor driver, it doesn't help that a lot of DT are using undocumented compatible strings (sometimes with no vendor prefix). You can see the discussion here [1].
In the same thread Mark Brown said that it wasn't that bad to have the information in the OF device ID table duplicated in a SPI device table.
Certainly isn't the best approach but IMHO is better than the module not loading.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7041141/ https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/545125/
If not, I'd recommend to stay with the current level of optimality.
BR and thanks, Nikolaus
Best regards,