Subject: device drivers
To: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
From: Peter Berg <Peter.Berg@ww.tu-freiberg.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/20/1997 18:26:36
Hi,

I've written a device driver skeleton and integrated this dummy driver into a 
self compiled kernel. Now the question:

the device will be a on podule and ATM *no* podule is present in my rpc at 
all. Can this be the reason for that the probe and attach functions are not 
executed ?
If I define the driver as

spdif0 at mainbus?

in the config file derived from the GENERIC file everything works.
The probe and attach functions are executed and the driver is installed. When 
I try to open the new device I get the status messages they are generated by 
my driver code.

But a spdif0 at podulebus? doesn't work. Why ?

Ciao, peter