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SubjectRe: [PATCH] move sb1250-mac's probe function to .devinit.text
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:

> A pointer to sbmac_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-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Weiwei Wang <weiwei.wang@windriver.com>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>

Fine by me, thanks.

Maciej


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