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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi_gpio.h b/include/linux/spi/spi_gpio.h
index 0f01a0f1f40c..ca6782ee4b9f 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi_gpio.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi_gpio.h
@@ -25,10 +25,16 @@
  *	...
  *	};
  *
+ * If chipselect is not used (there's only one device on the bus), assign
+ * SPI_GPIO_NO_CHIPSELECT to the controller_data:
+ *		.controller_data = (void *) SPI_GPIO_NO_CHIPSELECT;
+ *
  * If the bitbanged bus is later switched to a "native" controller,
  * that platform_device and controller_data should be removed.
  */
 
+#define SPI_GPIO_NO_CHIPSELECT		((unsigned long)-1l)
+
 /**
  * struct spi_gpio_platform_data - parameter for bitbanged SPI master
  * @sck: number of the GPIO used for clock output