Re: [PATCH] move omap-keypad's probe function to .devinit.text

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Jan 14 2009 - 00:35:24 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:24:40PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> A pointer to omap_kp_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.
>

Applied, thank you Uwe.

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Dmitry
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