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SubjectRe: [PATCH] move orion_nand's probe function to .devinit.text
Hi Nicolas,

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:37:23PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.
Can I interpret that as your intend to implement and test it?

Best regards
Uwe

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