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.
next prev 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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