linux-kernel - [PATCH 9/9] net: move am79c961's probe function to .devinit.text

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Message-Id: <1265313417-5568-9-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Thu,  4 Feb 2010 20:56:57 +0100
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 9/9] net: move am79c961's probe function to .devinit.text

A pointer to am79c961_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.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---
Hello,

@David Miller: this patch is in patchwork with State: Not Applicable.
Does that mean that netdev isn't the right tree for this patch?

Best regards
Uwe

 drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
index 164b37e..1c3c1f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops am79c961_netdev_ops = {
 #endif
 };
 
-static int __init am79c961_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int __devinit am79c961_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct resource *res;
 	struct net_device *dev;
-- 
1.6.6

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