Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: dts: exynos: Add SPI nodes for Exynos850

[Tudor Ambarus]

On 1/29/24 19:39, Sam Protsenko wrote:
>>> +                             samsung,spi-src-clk = <0>;
>> this optional property
>>
> The reason this property is provided here despite being optional, is
> to avoid corresponding dev_warn() message from spi-s3c64xx.c driver:
> 
>         if (of_property_read_u32(dev->of_node, "samsung,spi-src-clk", &temp)) {
>             dev_warn(dev, "spi bus clock parent not specified, using
> clock at index 0 as parent\n");
> 
> The same usage (samsung,spi-src-clk = <0>) can be encountered in
> multiple other Exynos dts in arch/arm/ and arch/arm64/, and it's also
> used in bindings example. Probably for the same reason explained
> above. Even if dev_warn() is removed in the driver, I guess the older
> kernels will still print it if spi-src-clk is omitted. So I'd like to
> keep it here.

Yeah, I know. I proposed a patch switching to dev_dbg. If it's so
annoying and implies adding superfluous properties to DT, maybe it is
worth to add a fixes tag to the dev_dbg patch and backport it to stable
kernels?

Your patch looks fine. I guess the vendor specific properties shall be
last if you keep them, see:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/devicetree/bindings/dts-coding-style.html#order-of-properties-in-device-node

If you remove the vendor properties or reorder them, one can add:
Reviewed-by: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxx>