Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] Documentation: dt: spi: Add GPIO Slave Select Parameter

[Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>]

On 10/07/2016 02:33 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:56 PM,  <tthayer@opensource.altera.com> wrote:
>> From: Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>
>>
>> Some SPI masters require the slave to be selected before a
>> transaction can occur - even in the case of GPIO chip select.
>>
>> This patch adds a GPIO slave select parameter to indicate
>> the slave needs to be selected in the GPIO CS case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thor Thayer <tthayer@opensource.altera.com>
>> ---
>> v2  Add to SPI framework - add bindings.
>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt |    1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
>> index 4b1d6e7..3a006bc 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
>> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ support describing the chip select layout.
>>  Optional properties:
>>  - cs-gpios       - gpios chip select.
>>  - num-cs         - total number of chipselects.
>> +- gpio-ss        - use internal slave select with gpio chip select.
>>
>>  If cs-gpios is used the number of chip selects will be increased automatically
>>  with max(cs-gpios > hw cs).
>
> To me, this looks more like a new flag the SPI controller driver should
> set in spi_master.flags, instead of a DT property.
>
Yes, I see your point since this is SPI master specific. I'll respin as 
you suggest.

Thanks for reviewing!

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