前篇文章分析了SPI主控制器驱动,也就是SPI总线驱动,既然总线有了,根据linux设备驱动模型,还得有SPI设备和SPI设备驱动。SPI设备是在板级文件中注册,SPI设备驱动需要用户自己实现,好在内核为我们提供了一个通用的SPI设备驱动spidev.c,下面就来分析一下这个文件,该文件位于kernel3.0.15/drivers/spi/spidev.c。
1. 模块初始化和注销:spidev_init & spidev_exit
static const struct file_operations spidev_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
/* REVISIT switch to aio primitives, so that userspace
* gets more complete API coverage. It'll simplify things
* too, except for the locking.
*/
.write = spidev_write,
.read = spidev_read,
.unlocked_ioctl = spidev_ioctl,
.compat_ioctl = spidev_compat_ioctl,
.open = spidev_open,
.release = spidev_release,
.llseek = no_llseek,
};
static struct spi_driver spidev_spi_driver = {
.driver = {
.name = "spidev",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
.probe = spidev_probe,
.remove = __devexit_p(spidev_remove),
/* NOTE: suspend/resume methods are not necessary here.
* We don't do anything except pass the requests to/from
* the underlying controller. The refrigerator handles
* most issues; the controller driver handles the rest.
*/
};
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
static int __init spidev_init(void)
{
int status;
/* Claim our 256 reserved device numbers. Then register a class
* that will key udev/mdev to add/remove /dev nodes. Last, register
* the driver which manages those device numbers.
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(N_SPI_MINORS > 256);
//注册字符设备,参数spidev_fops是struct file_operations的实例,这里就可以知道,用户程序的open、write等操作最终会调用这里面的函数
status = register_chrdev(SPIDEV_MAJOR, "spi", &spidev_fops);
if (status < 0)
return status;
spidev_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "spidev"); //创建spidev这一类设备,为后面自动生成设备节点做准备
if (IS_ERR(spidev_class)) {
unregister_chrdev(SPIDEV_MAJOR, spidev_spi_driver.driver.name);
return PTR_ERR(spidev_class);
}
status = spi_register_driver(&spidev_spi_driver); //注册spi设备驱动
if (status < 0) {
class_destroy(spidev_class);
unregister_chrdev(SPIDEV_MAJOR, spidev_spi_driver.driver.name);
}
return status;
}
module_init(spidev_init);
static void __exit spidev_exit(void)
{
spi_unregister_driver(&spidev_spi_driver);
class_destroy(spidev_class);
unregister_chrdev(SPIDEV_MAJOR, spidev_spi_driver.driver.name);
}
module_exit(spidev_exit);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Andrea Paterniani, <a.paterniani@swapp-eng.it>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("User mode SPI device interface");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_ALIAS("spi:spidev");
在模块初始化函数中,创建了一个字符设备以提供API给用户层,同时创建了一个spidev类,最后注册spi_driver到内核中。在这里我们看到了SPI设备驱动是如何提供API给用户层的,那就是通过再熟悉不过的字符设备。通过字符设备,给用户层提供了5个API:open,release,write