[spi-devel-general] [PATCH 2/2] SPI: make the moved loopback test work

[Grant Likely]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Linus Walleij
<linus.ml.walleij at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/20 David Brownell <david-b at pacbell.net>:
>
>>> No matter how much I look at it, it seems like
>>> all use of this require you to first register
>>> *some* device,
>>
>> OBVIOUSLY.  You can't use SPI without a device;
>> it's like any other driver framework in Linux.
>> What else should you expect???
>
> I didn't expect anything else, it just makes it clear that
> the part of my patch registering a dummy device is
> not what is being disagreed upon, so this should be OK.

What's disagreed with is the dummy device knowing the intimate working
details of the SPI bus driver.

g.