Handling interrupts in spidev

[Richard Weinberger]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Amit Mahadik <amitmahadik35 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>           I am using a custom ARM board. I have a SPI slave device and using
> the spidev_test utility I am able to do ioctls on the slave device.
> However, I have a problem. The SPI slave device has an interrupt pin and I
> want to process the interrupt and send some data into the userspace when I
> receive the interrupt. Can anybody please suggest me a way to do this using
> spidev driver?

Is the interrupt pin a gpio?
If so, you can access it from userspace and identify interrupts using poll().

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Thanks,
//richard