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From looking at the data sheets, it is not obvious that CS# and latch
clock can be treated at the same, but doing so works fine and saves the
hassle of (1) trying to specify a SPI device without CS, and (2) adding
another property to drive the latch clock[1].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241213-gpio74-v1-2-fa2c089caf41@posteo.net/

Signed-off-by: J. Neuschäfer <j.ne@posteo.net>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241224-gpio74-v2-3-bbcf14183191@posteo.net
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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title: Generic 8-bit shift register

description: |
NOTE: These chips nominally don't have a chip select pin. They do however
have a rising-edge triggered latch clock (or storage register clock) pin,
which behaves like an active-low chip select.
After the bits are shifted into the shift register, CS# is driven high, which
the 74HC595 sees as a rising edge on the latch clock that results in a
transfer of the bits from the shift register to the storage register and thus
to the output pins.
_ _ _ _
shift clock ____| |_| |_..._| |_| |_________
latch clock * trigger
___ ________
chip select# |___________________|
maintainers:
- Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>

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