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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 012/143] USB: move twl4030_usb's probe function to .devinit.text
    On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:05:59AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
    > Hi Greg,
    >
    > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:22:07PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
    > > A pointer to twl4030_usb_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.
    > I wonder if this kind of error could be detected automatically. That is
    > at probe time check if the probe function is in the .init.text section.

    There's nothing wrong with calling probe functions in the .init.text
    section, _before_ we throw away the init.text section :)

    So we would have to somehow know when that happens.

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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