Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] spi: dt-bindings: Introduce spi-mosi-idle-low flag

[Börge Strümpfel]

Thank you for your feedback

Am Mo., 15. Mai 2023 um 02:34 Uhr schrieb Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 08:54:19AM +0200, Börge Strümpfel wrote:
> > Am Fr., 12. Mai 2023 um 05:30 Uhr schrieb Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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> > > If this is always required for a given device (which I'd expect to be
> > > the case) why configure it through DT?  I know we've got some legacy
> > > stuff like that but not all legacy DT choices were good and no need to
> > > continue the pattern.
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> > Yes this will always be the case for specific spi-device, spi-controller
> > combinations. Just to make sure, that I understand your suggestion
> > correctly: You propose to check from the specific spi-device-driver, if
> > the spi-controller supports this particular mode-bit, and then set it if
> > it does and thereby loose the need for the DT entry completely?
>
> Yes, we shouldn't need DT here.  Though the device should just be
> setting this unconditionally if it's always required.

I agree with you, that we should not need DT here. I will remove the
dt-binding in the next patch version.

However I am not so sure about setting it unconditionally, since this
is dependent on the spi-controller. Not all spi-controller show this
behavior, that they use a high mosi line in idle mode and have the
ability to change this. As far as I know, another common behavior
is that the mosi just keeps the last state which it transmitted. In this
case, devices like Neopixel would still work without this mode bit.