Re: [PATCH RFC v3 5/9] spi: dt-bindings: axi-spi-engine: document spi-offloads

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:17:00PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> On 7/26/24 7:38 AM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 04:57:12PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> >> The AXI SPI Engine has support for hardware offloading capabilities.
> >> There can be up to 32 offload instances per SPI controller, so the
> >> bindings limit the value accordingly.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> RFC: I have a few questions about this one...
> >>
> >> 1.  The trigger-source properties are borrowed from the leds bindings.
> >>     Do we want to promote this to a generic binding that can be used by
> >>     any type of device?
> > 
> > I would make it specific to spi-offload.
> 
> OK
> 
> Meanwhile, we are working on some other ADCs (without SPI offload) and
> finding that they are using basically the same sorts of triggers. And
> on the driver side of things in this series, I'm getting feedback that
> we should have some sort of generic trigger device rather than using,
> e.g. a clk directly. If we need this same sort of trigger abstraction
> for both SPI offloads and IIO device, it does seems like we might want
> to consider something like a new trigger subsystem.

A "device" in the sense that "pwm-clk" is a device I suppose. Are any of
these other things WIP on the lists (that I may have missed while I was
away) or are they still something you're working on internally.

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