On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Gavin Guo <tuffkidtt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That How does probe work depends on particular driver. To be brief, > driver will does some initial work for devices, like setting up > register or registering device node on file system. For instance, > touch panel driver need to register an event node under /dev/input. > You can read the driver code for specific implementation of probe. > Ok I think these are the two places where I should be looking http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.36/drivers/pci/probe.c http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.36/drivers/pci/search.c The code in probe.c will detect the device. This is matched up with the driver (assuming it was registered) in search.c. Inspite of the comments on the above two links I am not able to understand it as how it is happening. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
