Query on use of CC3000 and linux driver

[victorascroft at gmail.com]

Hello,

I am looking into use of CC3000 under Linux.
http://www.ti.com/product/cc3000

I had a few questions in mind and doubts which I wanted to clear.

CC3000 has an board TCP/IP stack. It has a SPI interface for 
communication. One way of course is to use this SPI interface using the 
spidev module while adhering to the laid out protocol for CC3000 and 
writing one's own application.

However, is it possible to use the CC3000 perhaps like one would use a 
USB to WiFi device and a regular ethernet/WiFi connection? Basically, 
the WiFi connection being accessible like eth0 or wlp3s0 connection and 
all the regular functionalities one would expect of such a connection.

Is there a driver available which provides such functionality? Another 
example would be how SDIO based wireless devices get used (of course 
though these SDIO devices do not have an embedded stack). Is something 
similar possible for the SPI interface based CC3000?

The question arises from the fact that CC3000 has an board stack. Linux 
having its own TCP/IP stack, raises a point of contention of how Linux 
would control it. From what I understand, any device having an onboard 
stack TCP/IP or otherwise, for let's say bluetooth is not a correct use 
case with Linux and the functionality I am expecting (what I wrote 
above) is not possible to achieve, atleast not practically perhaps.

Thanks & Regards,
Victor.