Guide users to maintain the proper balance between native and GPIO chip
selects.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
---
 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/sh-msiof.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/sh-msiof.txt 
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/sh-msiof.txt
index bc8c16a6cfc82685..80710f0f04489174 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/sh-msiof.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/sh-msiof.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ Optional properties:
                           0: MSIOF_SYNC
                           1: MSIOF_SS1
                           2: MSIOF_SS2
+                        Hardware limitations related to chip selects:
+                          - Native chip selects are always deasserted in
+                            between transfers that are part of the same
+                            message.  Use cs-gpios to work around this.
+                          - All slaves using native chip selects must use the
+                            same spi-cs-high configuration.  Use cs-gpios to
+                            work around this.
+                          - When using GPIO chip selects, at least one native
+                            chip select must be left unused, as it will be
+                            driven anyway.
 - dmas                 : Must contain a list of two references to DMA
                         specifiers, one for transmission, and one for
                         reception.
-- 
2.7.4

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