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[PATCH 05/16] drivers/fsi: Add fake master driver

From: jk@ozlabs.org (Jeremy Kerr)
Date: 2016-12-07 23:29:08
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Hi Mark & Chris,
On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 06:14:26PM -0600, Chris Bostic wrote:
quoted
From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>

For debugging, add a fake master driver, that only supports reads,
returning a fixed set of data.
quoted
+config FSI_MASTER_FAKE
+	tristate "Fake FSI master"
+	depends on FSI
+	---help---
+	This option enables a fake FSI master driver for debugging.
+endif
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+static const struct of_device_id fsi_master_fake_match[] = {
+	{ .compatible = "ibm,fsi-master-fake" },
+	{ },
+};
NAK.

DT should be treated as an ABI, and should describe the HW explicitly.
This makes no sense. This is also missing a binding document.

Have your module take a module parameter allowing you to bind it to
arbitrary devices, or do something like what PCI does where you can
bind/unbind arbitrary drivers to devices using sysfs.
This driver is purely for testing the FSI engine scan code; we could
probably just drop this patch since I suspect that it's no longer useful
(now that we have an actual master driver).

If we do want to keep it though, I'd say we remove the device tree
dependency; all this is doing at the moment is triggering the ->probe,
and there are better ways to do that.

Cheers,


Jeremy
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