MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE type=of means?

Bjørn Mork bjorn at mork.no
Mon Oct 3 03:16:29 EDT 2016


Muni Sekhar <munisekharrms at gmail.com> writes:

> I see that following dma engine driver uses MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE with ‘type=of’.
> What does ‘type=of’ means? How to trigger this driver’s probe and
> remove to be called?

"Open Firmware", aka "Device Tree".  See Documentation/devicetree/


Bjørn



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