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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] move spitz-keyboard's probe function to .devinit.text
    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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