linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/58] move at91_ether's probe function to .devinit.text

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Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:09:37 -0700
From:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
To:	"Uwe Kleine-König" 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>,
	Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>,
	Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@...s.ch>,
	Andrew Victor <linux@...im.org.za>,
	Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/58] move at91_ether's probe function to .devinit.text

On Friday 27 March 2009, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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.

IMO that's preferable for this driver.  There's no
point in doing anything other than discarding the
probe() method after the driver has been set up;
it'd be doing nothing except wasting memory.

Same thing for ... pretty much all other drivers
for SoC platform devices.

In this series, you cc'd me on four OMAP drivers
(mmci-omap, mmci-omap-hs, omap-rng, omap_udc) which
I *know* that's a completely workable -- and far
preferable -- solution.  There might be others.

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