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From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: device model documentation 2/3
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 17:50:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CFCE1E2.1040906@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206040918490.654-100000@geena.pdx.osdl.net>

Patrick Mochel wrote:
> Document 2: driver.txt

> 
> This callback only verifies that there actually is supported hardware
> present. It may allocate a driver-specific structure, but it should
> not do any initialization of the hardware itself. The device-specific
> structure may be stored in the device's driver_data field. 
> 
> 	int	(*init)		(struct device * dev);
> 
> init is called during the binding stage. It is called after probe has
> successfully returned and the device has been registered with its
> class. It is responsible for initializing the hardware.

"init is called during the *attachment*."
You see it even sounds more naturall.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-04 16:25 device model documentation 2/3 Patrick Mochel
2002-06-02  2:00 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-04 15:50 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-06-04 17:49 ` Greg KH
2002-06-05 12:51 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 19:11   ` Patrick Mochel
2002-06-02  4:49     ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-06 19:15       ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2002-06-06 19:24         ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-06 20:00         ` Oliver Neukum
2002-06-05 21:54     ` Oliver Neukum

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