On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 13:53, Joy Sun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I am seeing probe function pointer and know the procedure to register of it > for a specific device driver. However, I wonder when it is actually called? > For example, for platform drivers, there is a structure like this:
Hi... AFAIK, it's mostly related to interrupt and/or bus handling. Whenever there is new device gets active, "message" is sent along to the bus, for example when you insert a USB flash disc. NB: Might be loosely related to HAL or udev -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
