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Re: passing device parameters to driver

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Bahadir Balban wrote:

On 3/31/06, Bahadir Balban <bilgehan.balban@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
during driver/device matching. The irq number is an example. The
rationale is that it's defined on the device's side,


Also forgot to say, all this applies for a struct platform_device,
since it is declared at compile time rather than probed by a bus and
get filled at run-time.

My understanding of the platform_device API is, that it is used for devices, not residing on a "real" bus (like PCI, ISA with PNP, I2C, SCSI, USB,...) and which thus cannot be really detected. Examples of such devices, I think, are legacy ISA UARTs, could be PS/2 ports. Apart from that platform_devices are used on various platforms where devices are connected directly to the CPU's local bus, e.g., on many embedded architectures.

HTH
Guennadi
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DSA Daten- und Systemtechnik GmbH
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Germany

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