Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:56:06 +0300 | From | Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] platform-drivers: move probe to .devinit.text in arch/arm |
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > A pointer to a probe callback 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> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> > Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> > Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> > Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> > Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <Kristoffer.Ericson@gmail.com> > Cc: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com> > Cc: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> > Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> > Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
sharpsl_pm part: Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
-- With best wishes Dmitry
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