| From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:24:34 +0100 | Subject | [PATCH] move meth's probe function to .devinit.text |
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A pointer to meth_probe is passed to the core via platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the .init sections are discarded. Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y) unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an oops as does a device being registered late.
An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> --- drivers/net/meth.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/meth.c b/drivers/net/meth.c index c336a1f..8947129 100644 --- a/drivers/net/meth.c +++ b/drivers/net/meth.c @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int meth_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) /* * The init function. */ -static int __init meth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) +static int __devinit meth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct net_device *dev; struct meth_private *priv; -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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