spi: docs: improve the SPI userspace API documentation

This doc is fairly outdated and only uses legacy device instantiation
terminology. Let us update it and also mention the OF and ACPI device
tables, to make easier for users to figure out how should be defined.

Also, mention that devices bind could be done in user-space now using
the "driver_override" sysfs entry.

Suggested-by: Ralph Siemsen <ralph.siemsen@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211119121139.2412761-1-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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DEVICE CREATION, DRIVER BINDING
===============================
The simplest way to arrange to use this driver is to just list it in the
spi_board_info for a device as the driver it should use: the "modalias"
entry is "spidev", matching the name of the driver exposing this API.
Set up the other device characteristics (bits per word, SPI clocking,
chipselect polarity, etc) as usual, so you won't always need to override
them later.
(Sysfs also supports userspace driven binding/unbinding of drivers to
devices. That mechanism might be supported here in the future.)
The spidev driver contains lists of SPI devices that are supported for
the different hardware topology representations.
When you do that, the sysfs node for the SPI device will include a child
device node with a "dev" attribute that will be understood by udev or mdev.
(Larger systems will have "udev". Smaller ones may configure "mdev" into
busybox; it's less featureful, but often enough.) For a SPI device with
chipselect C on bus B, you should see:
The following are the SPI device tables supported by the spidev driver:
- struct spi_device_id spidev_spi_ids[]: list of devices that can be
bound when these are defined using a struct spi_board_info with a
.modalias field matching one of the entries in the table.
- struct of_device_id spidev_dt_ids[]: list of devices that can be
bound when these are defined using a Device Tree node that has a
compatible string matching one of the entries in the table.
- struct acpi_device_id spidev_acpi_ids[]: list of devices that can
be bound when these are defined using a ACPI device object with a
_HID matching one of the entries in the table.
You are encouraged to add an entry for your SPI device name to relevant
tables, if these don't already have an entry for the device. To do that,
post a patch for spidev to the linux-spi@vger.kernel.org mailing list.
It used to be supported to define an SPI device using the "spidev" name.
For example, as .modalias = "spidev" or compatible = "spidev". But this
is no longer supported by the Linux kernel and instead a real SPI device
name as listed in one of the tables must be used.
Not having a real SPI device name will lead to an error being printed and
the spidev driver failing to probe.
Sysfs also supports userspace driven binding/unbinding of drivers to
devices that do not bind automatically using one of the tables above.
To make the spidev driver bind to such a device, use the following:
echo spidev > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spiB.C/driver_override
echo spiB.C > /sys/bus/spi/drivers/spidev/bind
When the spidev driver is bound to a SPI device, the sysfs node for the
device will include a child device node with a "dev" attribute that will
be understood by udev or mdev (udev replacement from BusyBox; it's less
featureful, but often enough).
For a SPI device with chipselect C on bus B, you should see:
/dev/spidevB.C ...
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