[PATCH 3/4] spi: Add OF binding support for SPI busses

Guennadi Liakhovetski g.liakhovetski at gmx.de
Mon May 19 23:17:22 EST 2008


On Fri, 16 May 2008, Grant Likely wrote:

> +    However, the binding does not attempt to define the specific method for
> +    assigning chip select numbers.  Since SPI chip select configuration is
> +    flexible and non-standardized, it is left out of this binding with the
> +    assumption that board specific platform code will be used to manage
> +    chip selects.  Individual drivers can define additional properties to
> +    support describing the chip select layout.

Yes, this looks like a problem to me. This means, SPI devices will need 
two bindings - OF and platform?... Maybe define an spi_chipselect 
OF-binding?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski



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