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user3693586
user3693586

Reputation: 1287

Device node and driver without actual device

I have a doubt on the following scenario in device tree, could you please help.

We have a device node entry in the device tree and corresponding driver exists in the Kernel source, but actual device is not present on the board then what will happen? Will the driver build with the kernel source, if the driver builds then driver binding happens?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 613

Answers (1)

Rahul
Rahul

Reputation: 1627

If your device is actually not present in the board, and you want to keep the device node in the device tree structure. you should use status = "disabled" in your device node. This property tells that device is not currently available. In future whenever your device is available you can make this status = "ok".

And yes driver will be built always, only bindings won't happen, as there is no corresponding device exists.

Upvotes: 1

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