From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:01:17 +0900
Subject: How to correctly load a driver without device tree?
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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?