Re: [PATCH 47/58] move sharpsl-pm's probe function to .devinit.text

[Eric Miao]

2009/3/29 Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 05:32:02PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> 2009/3/28 Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > A pointer to sharpsl_pm_probe is passed to the core via
>> > platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
>> > .init sections are discarded. ÂOtherwise (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.
>> >
>>
>> This one looks OK to me.
> I assume this is an Acked-by: you?
>

Acked-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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- eric
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