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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>spi_new_device</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers" /><link rel="up" href="ch09.html" title="Chapter 9. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)" /><link rel="prev" href="re744.html" title="spi_add_device" /><link rel="next" href="re746.html" title="spi_alloc_master" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>spi_new_device</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re744.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 9. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re746.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="spi_new_device"><a id="API-spi-new-device"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>spi_new_device —
instantiate one new SPI device
</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct spi_device * <b class="fsfunc">spi_new_device </b>(</code></td><td>struct spi_master * <var class="pdparam">master</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>struct spi_board_info * <var class="pdparam">chip</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2706707"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>master</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
Controller to which device is connected
</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>chip</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
Describes the SPI device
</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Context"><a id="id2706752"></a><h2>Context</h2><p>
can sleep
</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2706762"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
On typical mainboards, this is purely internal; and it's not needed
after board init creates the hard-wired devices. Some development
platforms may not be able to use spi_register_board_info though, and
this is exported so that for example a USB or parport based adapter
driver could add devices (which it would learn about out-of-band).
</p><p>
Returns the new device, or NULL.
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