linux-kernel - Re: Grafting old platform drivers onto a new DT kernel

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Message-ID: <5641E6C0.8090507@free.fr>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:44:48 +0100
From:	Mason <slash.tmp@...e.fr>
To:	Mans Rullgard <mans@...sr.com>
Cc:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@...hile0.org>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: Grafting old platform drivers onto a new DT kernel

On 09/11/2015 18:13, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Add something like this:
> 
> static const struct of_device_id tangox_sdio_dt_ids[] = {
> 	{ .compatible = "sigma,tangox-sdio" },
> 	{ }
> };
> 
> static struct platform_driver tangox_platform_sdio0 = {
> 	.probe		= sdhci_tangox_probe,

It looks like one side effect of this transformation is that
the probe function cannot be __init anymore? Is that correct?

For this one particular driver, it weighs 944 bytes. (I guess
a few kilobytes wasted is no big deal...)

Regards.

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