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

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Mar 14 09:59:47 EDT 2014


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:19:07AM +0100, Michael Grzeschik wrote:
>
>> 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.

I'd suggest you try to use drivers/firmware.

That subsystem is a bit x86-centrix at the moment but looking at the
stuff that is in there (like supporting BIOS updates through sysfs and
other low-level firmware communication) this stuff is close enough.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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