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Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 13:47:26 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] spi: pxa2xx: Move PXA SSP bindings to the correct
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On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:19:51PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 06:24:37PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:11:03PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

..

> > > > SSP stands for Serial Synchronous Protocol and has nothing to do with
> > > > UART, also known as USART, where 'A' stands for Asynchronous.
> > > >
> > > > Move the SSP bindings to where it belongs.
> > >
> > > It's a serial device which is also used for other applications (the
> > > other one upstream being audio) so I can see where the current binding
> > > comes from and it's not super obvious that spi is especially better
> > > here.
> >
> > Hmm... okay. Then it's question to DT people. Consider this as a report.
> > Because UART (aka serial) is definitely not the place for SPI/SSP bindings
> > either.
> 
> Move it when it is converted.

The problem is that somebody added a binding (in YAML) for SPI PXA2xx
in the spi/ folder while this one kept unconverted.

If it dangles more, it might be that we will have two asynchronous bindings
for the co-existed drivers.

> Until then, I don't care too much. SPI seems better than serial at least.
> The sound part is its own binding/node (something we wouldn't do today).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko