[PATCH 10/10] spi: s3c64xx: add device tree support
Mark Brown
broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Thu May 10 00:32:00 EST 2012
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 10:13:28PM +0800, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> On 9 May 2012 17:07, Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:34:54AM +0530, Thomas Abraham wrote:
> >> +- gpios: The gpio specifier for clock, mosi and miso interface lines (in no
> >> + particular order). The format of the gpio specifier depends on the gpio
> >> + controller.
> > This seems odd... This isn't a bitbanging controller, and surely the
> > driver will need to know which signal is which? I suspect this is
> > actually for pinmux rather than to identify the signals but that should
> > at least be made clear and really should be being done using the pinmux
> > API.
> The driver retrieves the list of gpio's that it is allowed to use. The
> gpio numbers for miso, mosi and clk are mandatory but the order in
> which they are specified is not important since the driver never needs
> to which gpio is which interface line. I agree the pinmux api should
> be used here, but the call to pinmux api would be a incremental change
> here, not changing the code this patch is adding.
I'd suggest just specifying the order - someone might want to use it
later for some reason and it's not really a hardship for someone to use
it. Avoids any "how does that work?" questions like I had.
> >> + - samsung,spi-cs-gpio: A gpio specifier that specifies the gpio line used as
> >> + the slave select line by the spi controller. The format of the gpio
> >> + specifier depends on the gpio controller.
> > We should really have a binding for this at the SPI level (and ideally
> > some code to manage setting the GPIO too) - it's pretty common to use a
> > GPIO as /CS.
> The existing implementations vary in the way the nCS gpio lines are
> specified. For some controllers, the nCS gpio's are included in the
> spi device node whereas in this implementation, the nCS gpio is listed
> in the spi slave device node.
Yeah, I know. I'm saying we should try to come up with a binding for
this that can be used by new SPI contollers going forward so things are
consistent.
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