Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5 | From | (Jonathan Corbet) | Date | Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:05:12 -0600 |
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> The (New) Linux Kernel Driver Model
It looks like a good start - a lot of things will be cleaner afterward.
A question...
In struct device_driver:
> probe: > Check for device existence and associate driver with it.
What, exactly, does "associate driver" mean? Filling in the struct device field, perhaps? Calling register_chrdev (or register_whatever)? Creation of a ddfs entry? As a driver writer I can understand that the probe routine should check for the existence of some device, and perhaps set up an internal data structure. What else happens?
jon
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