SPI_ALLOC_DEVICE

Section: Serial Peripheral Interface (S (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

spi_alloc_device - Allocate a new SPI device

SYNOPSIS

struct spi_device * spi_alloc_device(struct spi_master * master);

ARGUMENTS

master

: Controller to which device is connected

CONTEXT

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DESCRIPTION

Allows a driver to allocate and initialize a spi_device without registering it immediately. This allows a driver to directly fill the spi_device with device parameters before calling spi_add_device on it.

Caller is responsible to call spi_add_device on the returned spi_device structure to add it to the SPI master. If the caller needs to discard the spi_device without adding it, then it should call spi_dev_put on it.