Re: from WHERE platform driver's probe is called?

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 01:16:21PM +0000, Sunil Shahu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking into platform driver and devices and understood HOW platform
> driver's probe is called from kernel doc and following forum.
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kernelnewbies/37050
> 
> For further information I went through code in platform_driver_register() and
> got lost. I looked web but could not find substantiation information.
> 
> I am still not able to locate from WHERE this probe function is called and WHO
> calls it?

It all starts by your own driver, you end up calling it yourself,
through the driver core callbacks.

> Can someone please point to source code or some other document related to this?

Can you please provide a specific example of what you are wanting to see
the callback chain for?  What driver are you asking about?  Have you
read the platform code in drivers/base/ ?

thanks,

greg k-h

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