GPIO Expansion - 74HC595 on SPI Bus

I'm working on a new device, the Mikrotik SXTR.

Some modem control functions and the signal bar LEDs are on a 74HC595. The clock and data of this chip are connected to the same SPI lines as the flash chip, and the latch enable is on GPIO 11.
I thought this would work (in particular the cs-gpios option), but it does not.

&spi {
    status = "okay";
    num-cs = <2>;
    cs-gpios = <0>, <&gpio 11 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;

	gpio_ext: gpio_ext@1 {
		compatible = "fairchild,74hc595";
		reg = <1>;
		gpio-controller;
		#gpio-cells = <2>;
		registers-number = <1>;
		spi-max-frequency = <10000000>;
	};
};
  • The flash chip still works.
  • There is now a second SPI device, spi0.1
  • The LEDs created on gpio_ext are in the LED system.
  • Trying to light an LED proceeds without error, but it does not light.
  • The spi0.1 statistics count up when accessing LEDs.
  • GPIO 11 has not been seized by the kernel, I can still go to /sys/class/gpio and export it and bit bang it and the levels will appear at the chip.
  • There is a 0b (11) in here, but again it did not actually take:
root@OpenWrt:/sys/devices/platform/ahb/1f000000.spi/spi_master/spi0# hexdump of_node/cs-gpios
0000000 0000 0000 0000 000f 0000 000b 0000 0000

I look at the Teltonika 955 as a similar example, but there they are using pinctrls to make the HC595 pins including CS native to the SPI controller. Which I was hoping not to have to deal with pinctrls.

Any help is appreciated.