[PATCH v2 2/2] spi: npcm-pspi: Add NPCM845 peripheral SPI support

Tomer Maimon tmaimon77 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 18:44:29 AEST 2022


Hi Mark and Krzysztof,

Thanks for your reply,

On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 at 21:57, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 08:47:24PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 22/07/2022 20:43, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > ...with a fallback list required by the bindings so the driver actually
> > > binds.  Note that bindings are currently not in YAML format so there'd
> > > be even less enforcement of that than normal, and as they're currently
> > > written the bindings don't require fallback.
>
> > Yes, the bindings document should be rephrased but we were living like
> > that for few years. :)
>
> The binding document as it stands only has one compatible, there's no
> existing problem with it other than the YAML conversion.  If we're
> adding something new that requires a fallback we should be explicit
> about that rather than have something that's actively misleading where
> previously things were clear.  I don't mind if we add the compatible to
> the driver or document the requirement for the fallback but we should do
> one of the two.

is V2 good enough? adding the compatible to the driver and the document?
Or should we use fallback?
If fallback is choosen, can you explain how I should do it?

Best regards,

Tomer


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