[PATCH 3/3] spi: psdev: add passive serial driver

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Fri Mar 14 06:22:23 EDT 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:19:07AM +0100, Michael Grzeschik wrote:

> Second, the driver has "per se" nothing to do with SPI, beside it needs
> a clock and data line to transfer an image to the FPGA. (One way,
> therefor: passive). It needs to use some SPI controller to do that. Even
> the SPI Bitbang driver. Because of this, it depends on the SPI
> framework.

Lots of drivers use SPI but they sit in the relevant frameworks rather
than in the SPI framework.

> It is actually not more than that. I took the spidev character device
> driver as reference implementation. Any Idea where to put this driver
> instead.

Like I say somewhere where it sits with other FPGA programming stuff (if
that's what it does) would be my first thought.
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