netdev - Re: [PATCH] macb: Fix section mismatch and shrink runtime footprint

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Date:	Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:40:55 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macb: Fix section mismatch and shrink runtime footprint

Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> macb devices are only found integrated on SoCs, so they can't be
> hotplugged. Thus, the probe() and exit() functions can be __init and
> __exit, respectively. By using platform_driver_probe() instead of
> platform_driver_register(), there won't be any references to the
> discarded probe() function after the driver has loaded.
> 
> This also fixes a section mismatch due to macb_probe(), defined as
> __devinit, calling macb_get_hwaddr, defined as __init.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/macb.c |    9 ++++-----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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