On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:15:12PM +0530, Bond wrote: > Hi, > I was going through a tutorial given here > http://www.kroah.com/linux/talks/ols_2005_driver_tutorial/mgp00010.html > > I could not understand what did it means to bind to device as it is shown in > this function on above link. To 'bind' to a device means that your driver is asserting control of the device. The bus (in this case the USB) core code maintains the devices and ensures that only one driver controls a device at a time. On the previous slide, a USB device ID table was created that lists the IDs of the devices the driver supports. When your driver registers to the USB core (via usb_register()), the core code looks at the list of unclaimed devices and your provided ID table and calls your probe() for any matches. Your probe() callback is responsible for returning 0 if it wants to 'bind' to the device, otherwise you return an error. -- -joshc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
