From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to correctly load a driver without device tree?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:01:17 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180620080117.GA6735@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c3432d4.7dbf.1641be90140.Coremail.kipade@163.com>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 02:36:52PM +0800, kipade wrote:
> Now, most of kernel device are initialized by its driver according by
> what described within device tree block. Here, the dtb was parsed
> and used during kernel booting. If so, I want to load a device driver
> after kernel booting using insmod, there would be no device tree
> block present, so, the device would not be configured correctly.
> so, how to make it usable?
Why can you not build it into your kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-20 6:36 How to correctly load a driver without device tree? kipade
2018-06-20 8:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-06-20 8:30 ` kipade
2018-06-20 8:58 ` Gajjar Akash
2018-06-21 0:31 ` kipade
2018-06-20 12:31 ` Greg KH
2018-06-21 0:33 ` kipade
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