Re: [PATCH v2] DTS: ARM: gta04: introduce legacy spi-cs-high to make display work again

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Mon Sep 23 2019 - 13:34:48 EST


* H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [190920 09:12]:
> commit 6953c57ab172 "gpio: of: Handle SPI chipselect legacy bindings"
>
> did introduce logic to centrally handle the legacy spi-cs-high property
> in combination with cs-gpios. This assumes that the polarity
> of the CS has to be inverted if spi-cs-high is missing, even
> and especially if non-legacy GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH is specified.
>
> The DTS for the GTA04 was orginally introduced under the assumption
> that there is no need for spi-cs-high if the gpio is defined with
> proper polarity GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH.
>
> This was not a problem until gpiolib changed the interpretation of
> GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH and missing spi-cs-high.
>
> The effect is that the missing spi-cs-high is now interpreted as CS being
> low (despite GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH) which turns off the SPI interface when the
> panel is to be programmed by the panel driver.
>
> Therefore, we have to add the redundant and legacy spi-cs-high property
> to properly activate CS.

Thanks applying into fixes.

Tony