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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_alloc_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="re747.html" title="spi_register_driver" /><link rel="next" href="re749.html" title="spi_add_device" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>spi_alloc_device</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re747.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="re749.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="spi_alloc_device"><a id="API-spi-alloc-device"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>spi_alloc_device —
Allocate a 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_alloc_device </b>(</code></td><td>struct spi_master * <var class="pdparam">master</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3137705"></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
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can sleep
</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id3137742"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
Allows a driver to allocate and initialize a spi_device without
registering it immediately. This allows a driver to directly
fill the spi_device with device parameters before calling
<code class="function">spi_add_device</code> on it.
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Caller is responsible to call <code class="function">spi_add_device</code> on the returned
spi_device structure to add it to the SPI master. If the caller
needs to discard the spi_device without adding it, then it should
call <code class="function">spi_dev_put</code> on it.
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Returns a pointer to the new device, or NULL.
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