Nios SPI master support in kernel version 2.6.30

Well, I don't know if this is actually going to mean anything to anyone out there but I'll try anyway....

My driver calls spi_sync whic calls spi_async below. In the following code from spi.h, spi->master is NULL. I am fairly confident that the Nios SPI master is getting registered, at least I am sure that altspi is loading, running, acquiring the correct IRQ from the Nios2 system and is not returning any errors about not being able to register the SPI master & such. The other pointers below that I am "printk-ing" appear to be valid.

spi_async(struct spi_device *spi, struct spi_message *message)

{

printk("++++++++++ IN SPI_ASYNC +++++++++++++++\n");

message->spi = spi;

printk("++++++++++ RETURNING FROM SPI_ASYNC +++++++++++++++\n");

printk("$$$$$$$ spi_device: %p $$$$$$$$$$$\n", spi);

printk("$$$$$$$ spi_message: %p $$$$$$$$$$$\n", message);

printk("$$$$$$$ spi->master->transfer: %p %p %p $$$$$$$$$$$\n", spi, spi->master, spi->master->transfer);

return spi->master->transfer(spi, message);

}