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

can sleep

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.

Returns a pointer to the new device, or NULL.