Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] dt-bindings: spi: Add spi-buses property

[David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>]

On 8/18/25 9:56 AM, Sean Anderson wrote:
> On 8/15/25 11:49, David Lechner wrote:
>> On 6/16/25 5:00 PM, Sean Anderson wrote:
>>> From: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>
>>>
>>> Add a spi-buses property to the spi-peripheral-props binding to allow
>>> specifying the SPI bus or buses that a peripheral is connected to in
>>> cases where the SPI controller has more than one physical SPI bus.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@linux.dev>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Changes in v2:
>>> - New
>>>
>>>  .../devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml  | 10 ++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml
>>> index 8fc17e16efb2..cfdb55071a08 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-peripheral-props.yaml
>>> @@ -89,6 +89,16 @@ properties:
>>>      description:
>>>        Delay, in microseconds, after a write transfer.
>>>  
>>> +  spi-buses:
>>> +    description:
>>> +      Array of bus numbers that describes which SPI buses of the controller are
>>> +      connected to the peripheral. This only applies to peripherals connected
>>> +      to specialized SPI controllers that have multiple SPI buses on a single
>>> +      controller.
>>> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
>>> +    minItems: 1
>>
>> Finally have some hardware to test this series with using 2 or 4 buses.
>> I found that we also need an absolute max here to make the bindings checker
>> happy. 8 seems sensible since I haven't seen more than that on a peripheral.
>> We can always increase it if we find hardware that requires more buses.
>>
>> 	maxItems: 8
> 
> What is the error you get without this?
> 
> --Sean
> 

I don't have the terminal output anymore, but it was something along the lines
that there were too many items in the array. Like it had an implicit maxItems: 1.

Overriding in a separate file didn't help as the checker seems to consider
each binding file separately. I.e. sometimes I saw the same error twice.