diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fairchild,74hc595.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fairchild,74hc595.yaml index e8bc9f018edb1..0e5c22929bdeb 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fairchild,74hc595.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/fairchild,74hc595.yaml @@ -6,6 +6,23 @@ $schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml# 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