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Michael Buesch bfb9bcdbda spi-gpio: allow operation without CS signal
Change spi-gpio so that it is possible to drive SPI communications over
GPIO without the need for a chipselect signal.

This is useful in very small setups where there's only one slave device
on the bus.

This patch does not affect existing setups.

I use this for a tiny communication channel between an embedded device and
a microcontroller.  There are not enough GPIOs available for chipselect
and it's not needed anyway in this case.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:51 -07:00
Kay Sievers 6c7377ab68 spi: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Cc: dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: spi-devel-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2009-03-24 16:38:21 -07:00
Michael Buesch be50344e60 spi-gpio: sanitize MISO bitvalue
gpio_get_value() returns 0 or nonzero, but getmiso() expects 0 or 1.
Sanitize the value to a 0/1 boolean.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18 15:37:56 -08:00
David Brownell d29389de0b spi_gpio driver
Generalize the old at91rm9200 "bootstrap" bitbanging SPI master driver as
"spi_gpio", so it works with arbitrary GPIOs and can be configured through
platform_data.  Such SPI masters support:

 - any number of bus instances (bus_num is the platform_device.id)
 - any number of chipselects (one GPIO per spi_device)
 - all four SPI_MODE values, and SPI_CS_HIGH
 - i/o word sizes from 1 to 32 bits;
 - devices configured as with any other spi_master controller

When configured using platform_data, this provides relatively low clock
rates.  On platforms that support inlined GPIO calls, significantly
improved transfer speeds are also possible with a semi-custom driver.
(It's still painful when accessing flash memory, but less so.)

Sanity checked by using this version to replace both native controllers on
a board with six different SPI slaves, relying on three different
SPI_MODE_* values and both SPI_CS_HIGH settings for correct operation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Tested-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Torgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:19 -08:00