[PATCH v2 0/5] spi: add multi-CS and multi-chip aggregation support
Jonathan Santos <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 00:01:33 -0300
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-spi,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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This series adds support to multi-CS devices and ancillary device with lanes, to enable the multi-device setup described in [1], where multiple AD7768-1 ADCs are wired to the same controller in a synchronized sampling configuration, and the limitation noted in [2], where no SPI controller completely handles logical chip selects beyond the first one. The first part of the set addresses multi-CS support. Some SPI controllers can assert multiple chip selects simultaneously, but the existing code hardcoded CS index 0 in both spi_set_cs() and of_spi_parse_dt(), preventing this from working. The spi device name pattern is modified to include all active CS lines, so multi-CS devices are distinguishable in sysfs. The second part introduces spi_new_ancillary_device_with_lane() and its devm variant, used here to create subdevices that binds the CS with a correspondent rx and tx lane from the parent device. With that we can handle each device individually when there are separate data lanes. The last part uses the above infrastructure in the AD7768-1 driver to support aggregating multiple chips as a single IIO device. The number of sub-devices is derived from spi->num_rx_lanes. IIO channels are allocated dynamically, buffered capture is restricted to the full-device scan mask, and SPI offload mode enables SPI_MULTI_LANE_MODE_STRIPE to interleave samples from all lanes into the DMA stream. --- v2 summary: * Removed the per-transfer CS mask patches, the devices will be individually handled by the ancillary device feature. * Removed dynamic multilane selection patches. The lane is bound to the CS using the new spi_new_ancillary_device_with_lane() feature. * Included a use case patch modifying the AD7768-1 driver to support multidevice aggregation. * Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-spi/[email protected]/T/#t OBS: The ancillary device approach was chosen over per-transfer CS masks because it has better integrattion with regmap. Both approaches require multiple regmap instances, but the CS mask approach would additionally require custom read/write functions to route transfers to the correct CS, while ancillary devices handle this more transparently. David suggested adding an ancillary device field to spi_message, I guess to enable dynamic CS-lane selection. For now, using one ancillary device per chip for individual access and the main SPI device for simultaneous access seems to be sufficient. The dynamic approach can be implemented in the future if needed. --- [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/af0EGv172ZMl%[email protected]/T/#t [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Jonathan Santos (5): spi: support simultaneous assertion of multiple CS spi: expand device name to include all CS lines for multi-CS devices spi: introduce SPI ancillary device with lanes spi: spi-engine-ex: Add support for multi-CS devices iio: adc: ad7768-1: add support for multiple chip aggregation drivers/iio/adc/ad7768-1.c | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- drivers/spi/spi-axi-spi-engine.c | 22 ++++-- drivers/spi/spi.c | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- include/linux/spi/spi.h | 8 ++ 4 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) base-commit: e0484d62e8e1cff75b210938be835ea6221bda59 -- 2.34.1