Re: [PATCH] move sh_flctl's probe function to .devinit.text

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:52 -0700, Uwe Kleine-KÃnig wrote:
> A pointer to flctl_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.

... which is what you did for orion_nand, so let's do that for sh_flctl
too.

http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git/commitdiff/894572a3635

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx                              Intel Corporation

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