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

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Date:	Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:09:54 -0700
From:	David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@...el.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move sh_flctl's probe function to .devinit.text

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:52 -0700, Uwe Kleine-König 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

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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