I've been ramping up to write a device driver using the newbus architecture and so have been reading example drivers and looking at the kernel sources. All the example drivers define a static method table, a static driver_t structure and a static devclass_t structure. These are then all linked together via the DRIVER_MODULE macro which then adds an entry to the "linker set" via the SYSINIT macro.
My question is whether the static devclass_t structure is really ever used. At system startup it looks like the routine driver_module_handler(module_t mod, int what, void * arg) (kern/subr_bus.c) is called with what==MOD_LOAD and arg set to a ptr to the static driver_module_data structure defined internally via DRIVER_MODULE The driver_module_data structure contains the reference to the static devclasss_t structure that was declared in the driver. But the devclass_t ptr is overwritten by the statement *dmd->dmd_devclass = devclass_find_internal(dmd->dmd_drivers[0]->name,TRUE) This makes me believe the devclass_t structure defined in a driver is never used. Is there another code path I'm missing? Thanks -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
