On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The chip is also an 8 bit shift register which works out of the box as a GPO
> expander with this patch
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-74x164.txt | 4 +++-
> drivers/gpio/gpio-74x164.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-74x164.txt
> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-74x164.txt
> index cc26080..ce1b223 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-74x164.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/gpio-74x164.txt
> @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
> * Generic 8-bits shift register GPIO driver
>
> Required properties:
> -- compatible : Should be "fairchild,74hc595"
> +- compatible: Should contain one of the following:
> + "fairchild,74hc595"
> + "nxp,74lvc594"
Why did you choose the "lvc" variant?
Ideally, you want to put the oldest "manuf,74x594" variant here.
I once read it was Motorola who invented the 7459x parts, to interface with
SPI.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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