linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mmc_spi: export probe and remove functions

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Message-ID: <20080526141836.72db0623@mjolnir.drzeus.cx>
Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 14:18:36 +0200
From:	Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@...eus.cx>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Gary Jennejohn <garyj@...x.de>,
	Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mmc_spi: export probe and remove functions

On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:28:34 +0400
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com> wrote:

> ...so we'll able to write bindings for the OpenFirmware without
> messing with #ifdefs in the driver itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@...mvista.com>

This looks extremely wrong. Encapsulating probe functions isn't exactly
in line with the device model and bound to confuse people.

Your patches doesn't give a complete picture of the OF side of things,
but can't you solve this by having an init callback somewhere?

Rgds
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