diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi.h b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
index 4be01bb44377..82229317753d 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi.h
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_SPI_H
 #define __LINUX_SPI_H
 
+#include <linux/device.h>
+
 /*
  * INTERFACES between SPI master-side drivers and SPI infrastructure.
  * (There's no SPI slave support for Linux yet...)