Re: [PATCH v5 5/9] spi: Documentation: add page on multi-lane support

[David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>]

On 1/19/26 4:11 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:35:13 -0600
> David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/14/26 3:10 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:45:23 -0600
>>> David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> wrote:
>>>   

...

>>> Whilst simple I'd kind of expect a multi lane case as the example, or this and
>>> the multilane one? For me the comment that follows is sufficient for the 1 lane
>>> offset case you have here.  
>>
>> I thought that is what I did. I have one example that shows multiple lanes (ADC)
>> and one example that shows the map (Thing 1/2).
>>
>> But I guess you mean that you want a 3rd example that show both the map and
>> multiple lanes at the same time?
> Oops. No. I was arguing....
>>
>> I chose these two examples because they came from real-world use cases that
>> drove adding this feature. We didn't have a real-world case yet that used
>> both the map and multiple lanes at the same time so I didn't include that.
>>
>>>   
>>>> +            ...
>>>> +        };
>>>> +    };
>>>> +
>>>> +
>>>> +The default values of ``spi-rx-bus-width`` and ``spi-tx-bus-width`` are ``<1>``,
>>>> +so these properties can still be omitted even when ``spi-rx-lane-map`` and
>>>> +``spi-tx-lane-map`` are used.  
> 
> This comment is enough to allow you to drop the first example entirely and
> just have the 2nd.
> 
> Jonathan
> 

I still like having two examples of real-world uses cases since they are solving
two very different problems. It think combining these into one contrived example
would make it more difficult to see that.