I believe platform_driver_register() was added to the kernel in 2.6.15.
Can anyone tell me how it works ? What its really for ?
It seems to be used to load drivers for non-plug-and-play hardware. Is
this correct ?
Having said that its platform_driver structure has
static struct platform_driver my_driver = {
.probe = my_probe,
.remove = my_remove,
.suspend = my_suspend,
.resume = my_resume,
.driver = {
.name = (char *) my_driver_name,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
},
};
...a probe function. What action makes this probe function execute ?
What makes the remove function execute ?
I wrote a simple test driver but the remove() got called straight after
the probe().
Are there any actions the probe() function HAS to do ?
Sorry for all the questions but I'm a bit lost.
Thanks
dom
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