Driver as built-in instead of module
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Fri Mar 16 07:35:52 EDT 2018
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 04:48:52PM +0530, MUHAMMED ASAD P T wrote:
> Do you have a pointer to the source of your driver anywhere to see if it
> even can be built into the kernel?
>
>
> [Reply] For module, we use module_init(), I am looking for the kernel functions for built-in driver. As a module, driver probe() gets called.
> When driver configured as built-in, then module_init() is not called, i.e. print in module_init() is not coming.
module_init() should work just fine.
Again, do you have a pointer to the source of your code anywhere so we
can review it to see what the problem might be?
thanks,
greg k-h
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