Re: [PATCH 1/2] spi: spidev: Add Qualcomm spidev device compatible

[frut3k7]

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 2:11 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 02:01:27PM +0100, frut3k7 wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 10:37 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 08:18:05PM +0100, Paweł Owoc wrote:
>
> > > > +     { .compatible = "qca,spidev", .data = &spidev_of_check },
>
> > > No, this needs to correspond to the hardware being controlled via spidev
> > > not to an implementation detail.  Any new compatibles also need to be
> > > documented.
>
> > The device for which I want to add compatibility is originally used in the
> > router and this is what the dts fragment looks like:
>
> >
> >       spi@3 {
> >         compatible = "qca,spidev";
> >         reg = <0x00>;
> >         spi-max-frequency = <0x16e3600>;
> >       };
> >     };
>
> > According to this commit, Qualcomm use this compatibility:
> > https://github.com/dissent1/msm-2/commit/d6160218393552fea1b7973787f2bd154f870ee2
>
> This is out of tree, it's not exactly a good guide for mainline.  The DT
> should describe the hardware, not how some particular software stack
> chooses to drive it.
>
Will changing from "spidev" to "qca4024" be enough?

> > > I'm also missing patch 2 of this series so don't know what's going on
> > > there.
>
> > The second patch was sent only to the devicetree bindings project:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240205191828.998783-1-frut3k7@xxxxxxxxx/
> > It's probably done wrong...
>
> You should send the bindings change along with the driver change, they
> usually get merged together.