Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] spi: pxa2xx: Move PXA SSP bindings to the correct folder

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon May 20 2024 - 16:36:09 EST


On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 01:47:26PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:19:51PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 06:24:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:11:03PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > > SSP stands for Serial Synchronous Protocol and has nothing to do with
> > > > > UART, also known as USART, where 'A' stands for Asynchronous.
> > > > >
> > > > > Move the SSP bindings to where it belongs.
> > > >
> > > > It's a serial device which is also used for other applications (the
> > > > other one upstream being audio) so I can see where the current binding
> > > > comes from and it's not super obvious that spi is especially better
> > > > here.
> > >
> > > Hmm... okay. Then it's question to DT people. Consider this as a report.
> > > Because UART (aka serial) is definitely not the place for SPI/SSP bindings
> > > either.
> >
> > Move it when it is converted.
>
> The problem is that somebody added a binding (in YAML) for SPI PXA2xx
> in the spi/ folder while this one kept unconverted.

Ah, well that detail was missed.

>
> If it dangles more, it might be that we will have two asynchronous bindings
> for the co-existed drivers.

Looks like all that is needed is adding the compatible strings and
'dmas' property to spi/marvell,mmp2-ssp.yaml. The examples in the old
binding have other stuff, but looks like that's garbage.

Rob