On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > The spi bus has no autodetection whatsoever. The 'detection' of the > device that's suposed to be on the other side completely relies on user > supplied information coming from devicetree on many platforms. It is > completely reasonable then to allow the user to supply the information > at runtime by doing echo 'somedevice' > > /sys/bus/spi/drivers/somedriver/bind > This fails if somedriver does not have in its id table compatible of > somedevice so just skip this check for manual driver binding.
That's what the new_id file is for, right? thanks, greg k-h
