Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:34:47 -0800 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move spitz-keyboard's probe function to .devinit.text |
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:24:58PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > A pointer to spitzkbd_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. >
Applied as well, thank you.
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