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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-model')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt index 92d86f7271b4..453053f1661f 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt @@ -340,8 +340,10 @@ comparison: int (*match)(struct device * dev, struct device_driver * drv); -match should return '1' if the driver supports the device, and '0' -otherwise. +match should return positive value if the driver supports the device, +and zero otherwise. It may also return error code (for example +-EPROBE_DEFER) if determining that given driver supports the device is +not possible. When a device is registered, the bus's list of drivers is iterated over. bus->match() is called for each one until a match is found. |