From: dmitry pervushin <dpervushin@gmail.com>
To: Zik Saleeba <zik@zikzak.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to structure an SPI UART driver?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:33:11 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176982391.4906.4.camel@diimka.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33e9dd1c0704190045v62cd1b4fm8ded434086108dd5@mail.gmail.com>
On Чтв, 2007-04-19 at 17:45 +1000, Zik Saleeba wrote:
> I'm looking for a little advice on writing a driver for the Phillips
> sc16is752 SPI UART chip. I've written drivers before but I'm having a
> problem with this one. Since this driver is both an SPI driver and a
> UART driver I'm unclear on whether it should register with
> spi_register_driver() or uart_register_driver(), or both, or do
> something completely different. I'm not clear on how to play nicely
> with both subsystems.
It should call both. Think about your driver as the middleware -- bottom
half is SPI driver (and uses spi_xxx calls to interact with hardware),
and upper half is UART (and uses uart_xxx calls to provide inerface).
> Any hints?
...and welcome to spi-devel mailing list, spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cheers,
> Zik
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-19 7:45 How to structure an SPI UART driver? Zik Saleeba
2007-04-19 11:33 ` dmitry pervushin [this message]
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