Hi,

  I have a ARM11 based SoC with SPI controller in it. The board
  contains Spansion S25 SPI flash chip. I am writing the driver
  for the SPI controller from scratch but i am missing something in
  getting the Spansion chip to be detected. Please help.

  Here are the steps.

  - Controller driver - I registered a platform_device in the SoC core code.

  For the same platform_device name i have a driver registered in
drivers/spi
  dir (similar to xilinx spi but no bitbang). The probe works fine. I have
  platform_data with bus num and cs set to 0 and mode to SPI_MODE_3. (This
is
  the default i use in u-boot and it works fine with Spansion)

  - Now for the discrete spansion chip, i found that m25p80 code can be used
  as it supports Spansion SPI as well. I loaded the driver but it does not
  call m25p80_probe. The name of this driver is "m25p80".

  I can understand why the driver did not start probing coz there is no
device
  of the name "m25p80" the kernel aware of. But how do i register that
  device and where

Thanks,
C