from WHERE platform driver's probe is called?

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

>>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
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kernelnewbies/37050>

I would ask *what* is platform device driver ? and what is the *difference*
between a platform device driver and a normal device driver ?

The answer here explains it extremely well :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15610570/what-is-the-difference-between-platform-driver-and-normal-device-driver

>>For further information I went through code in platform_driver_register()
and got lost. I looked web but could not find
>>substantiation information.

This will help:
http://code.woboq.org/linux/linux/drivers/base/platform.c.html#platform_driver_probe

>>I am still not able to locate from WHERE this probe function is called
and WHO calls it?
>>Can someone please point to source code or some other document related to
this?

Review this article carefully:
https://coherentmusings.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/how-to-write-a-platform-devicedriver-adc-driver-using-wm97xx-codec/

Have fun :)

Aruna




On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Sunil Shahu <sunil.rockon at yahoo.in> 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?
> Can someone please point to source code or some other document related to
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Sunil.
>
>
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