[PATCH] of: added documentation for spi chipselects

Ernst Schwab eschwab at online.de
Wed Feb 17 05:39:57 EST 2010


From: Ernst Schwab <eschwab at online.de>

Added devicetree binding documentation for gpios used as chipselect. The
code to evaluate these is already present in spi_mpc8xxx.c.

Signed-off-by: Ernst Schwab <eschwab at online.de>
---
diff -upr a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/spi.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/spi.txt
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/spi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dts-bindings/fsl/spi.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ Required properties:
 - interrupt-parent : the phandle for the interrupt controller that
   services interrupts for this device.
 
+Optional properties:
+- gpios : specifies the gpio pins to be used for chipselects. 
+  The gpios will be referred to as reg=<index> in the SPI child nodes.
+  If unspecified, a single SPI device without a chip select can be used.
+
 Example:
 	spi at 4c0 {
 		cell-index = <0>;
@@ -21,4 +26,6 @@ Example:
 		interrupts = <82 0>;
 		interrupt-parent = <700>;
 		mode = "cpu";
+		gpios = <&gpio 18 1	// device reg=<0>, low-active
+			 &gpio 19 1>;	// device reg=<1>, low-active
 	};




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