From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>,
Hiromitsu Yamasaki <hiromitsu.yamasaki.ym@renesas.com>,
Jiada Wang <jiada_wang@mentor.com>,
Matt Porter <mporter@konsulko.com>,
linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/6] spi: Document SPI slave controller support
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:47:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495025272-23930-4-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1495025272-23930-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
---
v3, v4:
- No changes,
v2:
- New.
---
Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
index d1824b399b2d1d79..1721c1b570c32466 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
+++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ chips described as using "three wire" signaling: SCK, data, nCSx.
(That data line is sometimes called MOMI or SISO.)
Microcontrollers often support both master and slave sides of the SPI
-protocol. This document (and Linux) currently only supports the master
-side of SPI interactions.
+protocol. This document (and Linux) supports both the master and slave
+sides of SPI interactions.
Who uses it? On what kinds of systems?
@@ -154,9 +154,8 @@ control audio interfaces, present touchscreen sensors as input interfaces,
or monitor temperature and voltage levels during industrial processing.
And those might all be sharing the same controller driver.
-A "struct spi_device" encapsulates the master-side interface between
-those two types of driver. At this writing, Linux has no slave side
-programming interface.
+A "struct spi_device" encapsulates the controller-side interface between
+those two types of drivers.
There is a minimal core of SPI programming interfaces, focussing on
using the driver model to connect controller and protocol drivers using
@@ -177,10 +176,24 @@ shows up in sysfs in several locations:
/sys/bus/spi/drivers/D ... driver for one or more spi*.* devices
/sys/class/spi_master/spiB ... symlink (or actual device node) to
- a logical node which could hold class related state for the
- controller managing bus "B". All spiB.* devices share one
+ a logical node which could hold class related state for the SPI
+ master controller managing bus "B". All spiB.* devices share one
physical SPI bus segment, with SCLK, MOSI, and MISO.
+ /sys/devices/.../CTLR/slave ... virtual file for (un)registering the
+ slave device for an SPI slave controller.
+ Writing the driver name of an SPI slave handler to this file
+ registers the slave device; writing "(null)" unregisters the slave
+ device.
+ Reading from this file shows the name of the slave device ("(null)"
+ if not registered).
+
+ /sys/class/spi_slave/spiB ... symlink (or actual device node) to
+ a logical node which could hold class related state for the SPI
+ slave controller on bus "B". When registered, a single spiB.*
+ device is present here, possible sharing the physical SPI bus
+ segment with other SPI slave devices.
+
Note that the actual location of the controller's class state depends
on whether you enabled CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED or not. At this time,
the only class-specific state is the bus number ("B" in "spiB"), so
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-17 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-17 12:47 [PATCH v4 0/6] Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-17 12:47 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] spi: Document DT bindings for SPI controllers in slave mode Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-17 12:47 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] spi: core: Add support for registering SPI slave controllers Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-26 12:12 ` Applied "spi: core: Add support for registering SPI slave controllers" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2017-05-17 12:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2017-05-17 12:47 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] spi: slave: Add SPI slave handler controlling system state Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <1495025272-23930-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas-gXvu3+zWzMSzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-17 12:47 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] spi: sh-msiof: Add slave mode support Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-26 12:12 ` Applied "spi: sh-msiof: Add slave mode support" to the spi tree Mark Brown
2017-05-17 12:47 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] spi: slave: Add SPI slave handler reporting uptime at previous message Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-05-18 16:01 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <CAHp75VdphCGXYEMrF0eJ4WLe=wg_0o_xH833jJ1xjGynKV3jXA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-22 10:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
[not found] ` <CAMuHMdV6nNNA8_GsjYNTni0-V+2rujSdbyJ89pf136rD7toqhQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-22 10:16 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-17 12:54 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] spi: Add slave mode support Geert Uytterhoeven
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