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SubjectRe: [PATCH] spi: dt-bindings: Move 'rx-sample-delay-ns' to spi-peripheral-props.yaml
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:16:42AM +0530, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On 25/05/22 04:00PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> > SPI bus per device properties must be defined in spi-peripheral-props.yaml
> > for unevaluatedProperties checks to work correctly on device nodes.
> >
> > This has the side effect of promoting 'rx-sample-delay-ns' to be a
> > common property, but functionally it's no different if it was defined in
> > a Synopsys specific schema file.
>
> Functionally it is no different, but does this property make sense for
> other controllers? If not then I don't see why we should pollute the
> common list with controller-specific ones. For one, this now no longer
> makes it obvious that this property should only be used with the
> Synopsys controller. And if you keep making small exceptions for other
> controllers too, soon the common list will be full of controller
> properties and it will be a mess finding out what belongs to who.

There's at least one other case already:

cdns,read-delay:
$ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
description:
Delay for read capture logic, in clock cycles.


Too many common properties is not a problem we have. Too many custom
properties doing the same thing is the problem.

Rob

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