Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: spi: Add YAML schemas for the generic SPI options

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Hi,

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:05:48AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > +description: |
> > +  SPI busses can be described with a node for the SPI controller device
> > +  and a set of child nodes for each SPI slave on the bus. The system SPI
> > +  controller may be described for use in SPI master mode or in SPI slave mode,
> > +  but not for both at the same time.
> > +
> > +properties:
> > +  $nodename:
> > +    pattern: "^spi(@.*)$"
>
> Doing some testing with spi-gpio schema I'm writing, this needs to be
> "^spi(@.*)*$" so that just 'spi' is allowed.

I guess "^spi(@.*)+$" would be enough then?

> However, that's not enough for handling multiple instances of
> spi-gpio. So maybe we need "^spi(@.*|-[0-9a-f])*$" to allow spi-1,
> spi-2, etc. Really, we need to decide the larger issue of how we
> handle multiple instances when there's no address space.

That works for me, I'll change it.

> Also, this schema will be applied to any matching node name as it is
> used for automatic selection if compatible schema is not present. If
> we want to prevent that and only apply it when explicitly included,
> then we need to add a 'select: false'. Without it, we get more
> coverage, but it could slow things down and we'll get double printing
> of errors.

I guess we can change that later if it becomes too slow and / or
confusing?

Maxime

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