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SubjectRe: [PATCH 07/29] move efifb's probe function to .devinit.text
On 01/23/2010 03:35 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> A pointer to efifb_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.

__devinit looks reasonable enough to me.

Acked-By: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>

>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
> Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/video/efifb.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/efifb.c b/drivers/video/efifb.c
> index eb12182..2161f21 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/efifb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/efifb.c
> @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static int __init efifb_setup(char *options)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int __init efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> +static int __devinit efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
> {
> struct fb_info *info;
> int err;


--
Peter

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