[PATCH] SPI: spidev: Add DT compatible string for spidev driver.
Martin Fuzzey
mfuzzey at parkeon.com
Fri Apr 12 08:56:21 EDT 2013
The spidev driver is useful to allow userspace access
to SPI devices that have no kernel SPI driver.
However DT requires a compatible tree to allow the driver
to be probed.
To avoid having to modify the driver for every extra device
add a generic "linux,spidev" compatible string that may be
used in the DT to match such devices.
Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey at parkeon.com>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt | 3 +++
drivers/spi/spidev.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
index 296015e..3176587 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ contain the following properties.
If a gpio chipselect is used for the SPI slave the gpio number will be passed
via the cs_gpio
+For slave devices having no kernel driver the compatible string "linux,spidev"
+may be used to enable access from userspace via the spidev driver.
+
SPI example for an MPC5200 SPI bus:
spi at f00 {
#address-cells = <1>;
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
index 2e0655d..c2447a8 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
@@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ static int spidev_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
static const struct of_device_id spidev_dt_ids[] = {
{ .compatible = "rohm,dh2228fv" },
+ { .compatible = "linux,spidev" },
{},
};
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