Re: [PATCH 2/3] dt-bindings: spi: Add DT schema for Tegra SPIDEV controller

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 10:36:29AM +0000, Jon Hunter wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 17:31, Mark Brown wrote:

> > You can put 'spidev' in as the compatible and get the warning, we don't
> > require specific compatibles if the Linux device ID is good enough.  If
> > you genuinely just have bare wires you're probably able to cope with the
> > warning.  If something is actually connected you should use the
> > compatible for whatever that is, if spidev makes sense for it then
> > that'd be OK to add to spidev.

> We finally got back to this. Looks like just having 'spidev' as the
> compatible does not work. Apparently, it use to work and yes you would get
> the warning, but that no longer seems to be the case. I see a few others
> have been doing similar things and hacking their device-trees in different
> ways [0].

Huh, OK.  I don't recall any deliberate SPI change for that.

> I completely agree that ideally we would have a proper compatible string for
> this because after all device-tree describes the hardware. One use-case that
> we use is external loop back for verifying SPI by simply connecting MOSI to
> the MISO. Would it be acceptable to have a compatible string for external
> loopback connections?

That sounds fine.

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