在Linux设备驱动开发使用platform平台驱动模型过程中，在定义且初始化好platform_driver结构体变量以后，我们需要向 Linux 内核注册一个platform 驱动，Linux kernel中有两种方法，源码：include/linux/platform_device.h

方式一：

/* * use a macro to avoid include chaining to get THIS_MODULE */#define platform_driver_register(drv) \__platform_driver_register(drv, THIS_MODULE)extern int __platform_driver_register(struct platform_driver *,struct module *);/** * __platform_driver_register - register a driver for platform-level devices * @drv: platform driver structure * @owner: owning module/driver */int __platform_driver_register(struct platform_driver *drv,struct module *owner){drv->driver.owner = owner;drv->driver.bus = &platform_bus_type;        /* 最终调用driver_register来注册drv->driver */return driver_register(&drv->driver);}EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__platform_driver_register);/** * platform_driver_unregister - unregister a driver for platform-level devices * @drv: platform driver structure */void platform_driver_unregister(struct platform_driver *drv){driver_unregister(&drv->driver);}EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_driver_unregister);

方式二：

/* module_platform_driver() - Helper macro for drivers that don't do * anything special in module init/exit.  This eliminates a lot of * boilerplate.  Each module may only use this macro once, and * calling it replaces module_init() and module_exit() */#define module_platform_driver(__platform_driver) \module_driver(__platform_driver, platform_driver_register, \platform_driver_unregister)/** * module_driver() - Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything * special in module init/exit. This eliminates a lot of boilerplate. * Each module may only use this macro once, and calling it replaces * module_init() and module_exit(). * * @__driver: driver name * @__register: register function for this driver type * @__unregister: unregister function for this driver type * @...: Additional arguments to be passed to __register and __unregister. * * Use this macro to construct bus specific macros for registering * drivers, and do not use it on its own. */#define module_driver(__driver, __register, __unregister, ...) \static int __init __driver##_init(void) \{ \return __register(&(__driver) , ##__VA_ARGS__); \} \module_init(__driver##_init); \static void __exit __driver##_exit(void) \{ \__unregister(&(__driver) , ##__VA_ARGS__); \} \module_exit(__driver##_exit);/*** 具体驱动代码中实现如下所示*/module_platform_driver(xxx_driver);

        由以上展开可以看出，module_platform_driver是由module_driver封装而来，并填充了platform_driver_register、platform_driver_unregister两个函数作为宏的参数传递给了 module_driver的宏，这样做的目的是统一了接口函数，使得所有驱动的注册、注销函数都能统一的管理。

        因此，展开 module_platform_driver(xxx_driver)，第一步展开，调用宏module_driver(xxx_driver，platform_driver_register，platform_driver_unregister)；第二步展开是展开宏module_driver，展开的结果是（在宏定义里，## 的作用是将连个参数连在一起， # 的作用是加上双引号）：

static int __init xxx_init(void){        return platform_driver_register(&xxx);}module_init( xxx_init);static void __exit xxx_init(void){        return platform_driver_unregister(& xxx);}module_exit( xxx_exit); 

        通过以上分析可知module_platform_driver这个宏是间接调用了platform_driver_register()和 platform_driver_unregister()实现了 驱动函数的注册和注销操作。