October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
586 pages
14h 8m
English
Content preview from Linux Device Drivers Development
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Platform drivers and DTs
Platform drivers also work with DTs. It is the recommended way to deal with platform devices nowadays, and there is no need to touch board files anymore, or even to recompile the kernel when a device's property changes. If you remember, in the previous chapter we discussed OF match style, which is a matching mechanism based on DTs. Let's see in the following section how it works.