Question about combining a PCI driver with an OF driver

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jan 5 08:20:18 EST 2011


On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:00:07 -0800
<Bruce_Leonard at selinc.com> wrote:

> Okay, I get that and it makes sense with what I know so far about how the 
> kernel device model works (which I'm still learning).  So how would I 
> manually add a device?  Say I create the PCI wrapper driver that claims 
> the clone-TSEC, is there a "register device" type call similar to 
> pci_register_driver() that I could put in the wrapper code that causes the 
> gfar_probe() to be called?

Create an OF node (probably under the root node) programatically with
all the information the gianfar driver will want, based on what you
detect on PCI, and call of_platform_device_create().

-Scott



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