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

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Message-ID: <20090114053446.GB4375@dtor-d630.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:34:47 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] move spitz-keyboard's probe function to .devinit.text

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:24:58PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> A pointer to spitzkbd_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.
> 

Applied as well, thank you.

-- 
Dmitry
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