On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 04:32:12PM +0530, anish singh wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Philipp Ittershagen > <p.ittershagen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 05:16:01PM +0800, Li Haifeng wrote: > >> I make a driver module and built in the kernel. There are three devices use > >> the same driver on the hardware platform. To use each device, the probe > >> function of the driver module should be probed. So, the driver module is > >> registered in the kernel. > >> > >> My question is, how times should the probe function of the driver be called > >> and create nodes in devfs to corresponding with the three devices? > > > > It depends on what your architecture supports. If you have support for device > > tree, your entry in the device tree will make the subsystem call your probe > > function for each device it finds. You can then check the `compatible` entry > > of the device node and your driver is then able to register itself to the > > kernel subsystem. > Without device tree what would be your answer as i guess device > tree has come recently in picture but not sure. Let me rephrase your question and see if I understand it correctly. You have a probe function which already gets called for each device in your platform and you want to know how to make each device accessible in userspace (using i.e. devfs nodes) ? Greetings, Philipp _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
