Re: [PATCH 1/9] platform-drivers: move probe to .devinit.text inarch/arm

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> A pointer to a probe callback 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <Kristoffer.Ericson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

sharpsl_pm part:
Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx>

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With best wishes
Dmitry

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