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Mika Westerberg authored
Some IoT and maker software stacks are using spidev to perform raw access to the SPI bus instead of relying existing drivers provided by the kernel. They then implement their own "drivers" in userspace on top of the spidev raw interface. This is far from being an ideal solution but we do not want to prevent using mainline Linux in these devices. Now, it turns out that Windows has similar SPI devices than spidev which allow raw access on the SPI bus to userspace programs as described in the link below: https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/hardware/drivers/spb/spi-tests-in-mitt These SPI test devices are also meant to be used during development and testing. In order to allow usage of spidev for development and testing in Linux, add those same ACPI IDs to the spidev driver (which is Linux counterpart of the Windows SPI test devices), but complain loudly so that users know it is not good idea to use it in production systems. Instead they should be using proper drivers for peripherals connected to the SPI bus. Signed-off-by:
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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