Re: probe gets called without i2c device

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On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:47:01PM +0530, MUHAMMED ASAD P T wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
>  We didn't connect our i2c device with our board. But kernel driver
> 
>  subsystem calls the probe function from driver code. How to debug the
> 
>  issue.
> 
> 
> 
> our observation is as follows,
> 
>  
> 
>  In driver, if we comment out the .id_table in driver struct, then it
>  is not loaded. When the device is connected or not, both the time, the
>  driver is not loaded.

i2c is not a "hotplug" bus, so how would your device be found in order
to know to load it or not?

Shouldn't you have some device tree information that knows to bind your
device to the driver properly?

good luck!

greg k-h

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