Re: [PATCH] spi: dt-bindings: octeon: Convert to DT schema

Rob Herring <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jun 2026 10:00:40 -0500
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.linux-kernel-mentees,org.kernel.vger.linux-devicetree,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-spi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 09:32:59AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2026 at 07:53:56PM +0530, Ninad Naik wrote:
> > Convert octeon-3010 to DT schema
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ninad Naik <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  .../bindings/spi/cavium,octeon-3010-spi.yaml  | 67 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  .../devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-octeon.txt    | 33 ---------
> >  2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/cavium,octeon-3010-spi.yaml
> >  delete mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-octeon.txt
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/cavium,octeon-3010-spi.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/cavium,octeon-3010-spi.yaml
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..3dbbb4f3c104
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/cavium,octeon-3010-spi.yaml
> > @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> > +%YAML 1.2
> > +---
> > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/spi/cavium,octeon-3010-spi.yaml#
> > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > +
> > +title: Cavium, Inc. OCTEON SoC SPI master controller
> > +
> > +description:
> > +  The Cavium OCTEON SPI controller is an SPI master controller found in
> > +  OCTEON SoCs.
> > +
> > +maintainers:
> > +  - Mark Brown <[email protected]>
> 
> This should be someone with this h/w. But there doesn't appear to be any 
> OCTEON maintainer. There isn't any .dts using the compatible either. 
> Perhaps this driver and binding can just be removed?

Maybe not. Seems this is used on newer Octeon platforms like cn7130 
which aren't that old. Some Ubiquiti devices use it and run 5.4 kernel 
with OpenWRT:

https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/edgerouter_4

Rob