linux-kernel - Re: The ethernet driver doesn't get probed

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Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:12:11 +0800
From:	"Li, Zhen-Hua" <lizhenhua.dev@...il.com>
To:	Woody Wu <narkewoody@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The ethernet driver doesn't get probed

Goto /sys/ to find it. The devices are listed in it.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Woody Wu <narkewoody@...il.com> wrote:
> On 2012-11-26, Li, Zhen-Hua <lizhenhua.dev@...il.com> wrote:
>> First you  should run "lspci -n" to check your device ID and vendor
>> ID, and make sure they are in the map list in
>> /lib/modules/<your-version>/modules.alias .
>>
>
> For some reasons, I cannot build the driver as loadable modules since I
> have to get network before mount the root filesystem.  And, this
> ethernet controller is not PCI interface, so probabaly the lspci won't
> help.  Is there any other way to get the device ID and vendor ID?
> Thanks.
>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Belisko Marek
>> <marek.belisko@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Woody Wu <narkewoody@...il.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi, List
>>>>
>>>> I enabled an ax88796 Ethernet driver in the kernel configuration
>>>> menu.  Kernel version is 3.4.19. The arch is ARM and the system type
>>>> is Samsung S3C2410.
>>>>
>>>> In my debugging, I found the probe function of the driver did not
>>>> get invoked.
>>> Did you define platform data and platform device in board file?  See:
>>> arch/arm/mach-pxa/colibri-pxa300.c (line ~87)
>>>>
>>>> This driver is declared as platform_driver
>>>>
>>>> static struct platform_driver axdrv = { .driver = { .name
>>>> = "ax88796", .owner          = THIS_MODULE, }, .probe          =
>>>> ax_probe, .remove         = ax_remove, .suspend        = ax_suspend,
>>>> .resume         = ax_resume, };
>>>>
>>>> module_platform_driver(axdrv);
>>>>
>>>> So, its driver init function actually goes through
>>>> platform_driver_register() and then driver_register(), which
>>>> eventually call driver_attach() trying to attach the driver to the
>>>> "platform" bus.  But, on the platform bus, there is no any device
>>>> that can match the ax88796 driver, hence the driver failed in
>>>> attaching.
>>>>
>>>> I discovered the full list of devices found on the platform bus:
>>>>
>>>>     s3c2410-ohci, s3c2410-lcd, s3c2410-wdt, s3c2410-i2c,
>>>>     s3c24xx-iis, s3c2410-nand, s3c24xx_led, s3c2410-uart,
>>>>
>>>> You see, in the list, there is no a device looks like ax88796. All
>>>> these already existed devices on the platform bus are build-in
>>>> peripherals on the SoC of s3c2410, they are compiled into the code
>>>> by enabling some kernel configuration options.
>>>>
>>>> My question is, in terms of Linux driver technology, how to enable a
>>>> non-PCI and not on-chip device driver? I think the ax_probe function
>>>> must be called somehow, is this thinking right? If yes, I think
>>>> before the driver get initialized, the corresponding device has to
>>>> appear on the bus, but now it seems not.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>
>>>> -- woody I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different
>>>> person then.
>>>>
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>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> mbe
>>>
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>
> -- woody I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person
> then.
>
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