Name

spi_register_board_info — register SPI devices for a given board

Synopsis

int __init spi_register_board_info (struct spi_board_info const *  info,
 unsigned  n);

Arguments

info

array of chip descriptors

n

how many descriptors are provided

Context

can sleep

Description

Board-specific early init code calls this (probably during arch_initcall) with segments of the SPI device table. Any device nodes are created later, after the relevant parent SPI controller (bus_num) is defined. We keep this table of devices forever, so that reloading a controller driver will not make Linux forget about these hard-wired devices.

Other code can also call this, e.g. a particular add-on board might provide SPI devices through its expansion connector, so code initializing that board would naturally declare its SPI devices.

The board info passed can safely be __initdata ... but be careful of any embedded pointers (platform_data, etc), they're copied as-is.