[PATCH 03/17] spi/qspi: parse register by name.

[Sourav Poddar]

On Thursday 28 November 2013 04:24 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:15:14AM +0530, Sourav Poddar wrote:
>> On Tuesday 26 November 2013 05:54 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>> Do device tree binding changes early on in the series rather than at the
>>> end, one of the things that gets reviewed for is binding updates.
>>> Your code should also cope with the existing bindings, falling back on
>>> the current behaviour if it can't get the names or the extra resources.
>> My current code only has a single resouce, hence "*_byname* variants
>> was not used. With extra resources, I am switching to "byname" variants,
>> So, if a particular resource name is not found, it should just
>> bypass that, thinking
>> the resource is not required and should not resort to existing bindings..
> That means that if you switch all resources to _byname then the driver
> won't find any resources at all and will fail.  This will in turn mean
> that any device trees that work with the current code wil start failing,
> breaking compatibility.
I am changing my code to use *byname for all resources. There is no
dts available now in mainline using this code. I have added the dts file
as patch 15, 16 of this series to take care of this.