Historically ACPI has no means of the GPIO polarity and thus the SPISerialBus() resource defines it on the per-chip basis. In order to avoid an ambiguity, the GPIO polarity is considered being always Active High. Add note about this to the respective documentation file. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst index 4e264c16ddff..df4b711053ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst +++ b/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/gpio-properties.rst @@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ native:: } } +Note, that historically ACPI has no means of the GPIO polarity and thus +the SPISerialBus() resource defines it on the per-chip basis. In order +to avoid a chain of negations, the GPIO polarity is considered being +Active High. Even for the cases when _DSD() is involved (see the example +above) the GPIO CS polarity must be defined Active High to avoid ambiguity. + Other supported properties ========================== -- 2.30.2