| Date | Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:37:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] move orion_nand's probe function to .devinit.text |
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> A pointer to orion_nand_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.
For those kind of platform devices I'd prefer the alternative.
Nicolas |