On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 06:15:16PM -0700, David E. Box wrote:
> > > +static struct platform_driver sdsi_driver = {
> > > + .driver = {
> > > + .name = SDSI_DEV_NAME,
> > > + .dev_groups = sdsi_groups,
> > > + },
> > > + .probe = sdsi_probe,
> > > + .remove = sdsi_remove,
> > > +};
> > > +module_platform_driver(sdsi_driver);
> >
> > What causes the platform to know to register, and enable, this platform
> > driver? Shouldn't there be some hardware involved that is discoverable
> > to enable it to load dynamically?
>
> Ah. The patch that adds the SDSi platform device string was added to a series for the intel_pmt MFD
> driver and it's still waiting review. I see that complicates things. I can combine the two series
> together.
Do you have a pointer to the lore.kernel.org location of that series?
Your code right here will bind to any system that it is loaded on, a
very dangerous thing...
thanks,
greg k-h
