Re: [PATCH 1/6] dt-bindings: spi: Add spi-buses property

From: David Lechner

Date: Wed Nov 12 2025 - 11:52:38 EST


On 11/10/25 11:04 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 05:42:44PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
>> On 10/30/25 8:51 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
>
>>> But it can't really be 2 independent buses/controllers unless the ADC
>>> has 2 completely independent interfaces, right?
>
>> Correct.
>
>> The proposed property really only concerns the data lines (tx/rx). It doesn't
>> care if there is 1 or 2 SCLK lines and it doesn't care if there is only 1 CS
>> line.
>
>> So maybe spi-data-buses would be a better name for the property? Or
>> spi-data-ports (using the NXP FlexSPI controller docs terminology)?
>> Or spi-data-channels?
>
> This bindings discussion seems to have stalled out?

Yes, it seems so. I sent a v2 with with the property changed to "spi-data-buses"
in hopes that that it would be good enough, or if not, get the conversation going
again. [1]

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20251107-spi-add-multi-bus-support-v2-1-8a92693314d9@xxxxxxxxxxxx/