On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 03:16:23PM +0000, Tudor Ambarus wrote: > These patches close the circle and break the dependency between the SPI > of_alias ID and the SPI driver. The SPI of_alias ID was used as an index > into the fifo_lvl_mask to determine the FIFO depth of the SPI node. > Changing the alias ID into the device tree would make the driver choose > a wrong FIFO size configuration, if not accessing past the fifo_lvl_mask > array boundaries. Not specifying an SPI alias would make the driver fail > to probe, which was wrong too. Thus I updated the driver and I provided Specifying a specific compatible is just good practice, it makes the DT much more robust for when we discover new things about the hardware and reduces the surface of the ABI.
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