[PATCH 1/6] spi: imx: specify spi base for device tree probe

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Fri Nov 9 11:38:30 EST 2012


On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 03:00:20PM +0100, Steffen Trumtrar wrote:

> * This breaks compatibility with user space applications between non-DT and DT.

> * On platforms that are in between DT and non-DT, it breaks registration of
>   devices via spi_board_info.

> Use the same method as 7e6086d9e54a159a6257c02bb7fc5805c614aad2 does for gpios:
> Use alias to identify the spi port, and then specify the base via the port id.
> If alias is not defined in DT, allocate the base dynamically.

This sounds like a fix userspace and/or complete your DT conversion
problem...
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