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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:05:17 +1100
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Subject: Re: spidev.c driver on the ppc8247 (kernel 2.6.27.19)
From: Daniel Ng <daniel.ng1234@gmail.com>
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The solution is in Documentation/spi/spidev:

-in the slave device spi_board_info struct, specify 'spidev' for the
'modalias' of *every* SPI slave.

I wonder what magic was involved to set this up!!?