Re: Clarifications on usb device driver probe() function

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, stl wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am writing a USB device driver and I have some problems to write
> the specific probe() function.

What does your device do?

> In the documentation, it is said that the probe function is
> responsible for mapping the
> platform ressources (IRQ and I/O memory)

USB devices don't have platform resources.  The don't generate IRQs and 
they don't map memory.

> Firstly,  what should I do with platform_get_ressource() function?

Nothing.

> Some vendors use device_register(). What does it do?

It causes a device structure to be registered with the device core.  
This binds it to a driver and makes it appear under /sys/devices, among 
other things.  USB device drivers generally don't have to use it.

> And what is the field platform_data aim? (field of the struct device)

It is meant for storing platform-specific data relevant to the device.

Alan Stern

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