[PATCH] SPI core tweaks, bugfix

This includes various updates to the SPI core:

  - Fixes a driver model refcount bug in spi_unregister_master() paths.

  - The spi_master structures now have wrappers which help keep drivers
    from needing class-level get/put for device data or for refcounts.

  - Check for a few setup errors that would cause oopsing later.

  - Docs say more about memory management.  Highlights the use of DMA-safe
    i/o buffers, and zero-initializing spi_message and such metadata.

  - Provide a simple alloc/free for spi_message and its spi_transfer;
    this is only one of the possible memory management policies.

Nothing to break code that already works.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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2006-01-08 13:34:25 -08:00
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@@ -363,6 +363,22 @@ upper boundaries might include sysfs (especially for sensor readings),
the input layer, ALSA, networking, MTD, the character device framework,
or other Linux subsystems.
Note that there are two types of memory your driver must manage as part
of interacting with SPI devices.
- I/O buffers use the usual Linux rules, and must be DMA-safe.
You'd normally allocate them from the heap or free page pool.
Don't use the stack, or anything that's declared "static".
- The spi_message and spi_transfer metadata used to glue those
I/O buffers into a group of protocol transactions. These can
be allocated anywhere it's convenient, including as part of
other allocate-once driver data structures. Zero-init these.
If you like, spi_message_alloc() and spi_message_free() convenience
routines are available to allocate and zero-initialize an spi_message
with several transfers.
How do I write an "SPI Master Controller Driver"?
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