linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) introduce ec_board

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Date:   Wed, 27 Apr 2022 05:04:14 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Eugene Shalygin <eugene.shalygin@...il.com>
Cc:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) introduce ec_board_info
 struct for board data

On 4/27/22 02:32, Eugene Shalygin wrote:
>> Since this is now tied to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, ...), I think the
>> probe function should be referenced in asus_ec_sensors_platform_driver,
>> and it should be module_platform_driver() instead of
>> module_platform_driver_probe().
> 
> As follows?
> 
> static struct platform_driver asus_ec_sensors_platform_driver_probe = {
>      .probe = asus_ec_probe,
>          .driver = {
>          .name = "asus-ec-sensors",
>      .acpi_match_table = acpi_ec_ids,
>      },
> };
> 
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, acpi_ec_ids);
> module_platform_driver(asus_ec_sensors_platform_driver_probe);
> 
> The "_probe" suffix added to keep the asus_ec_probe() code and its
> deps as __init.
> 

Sorry, I don't follow that part. One can add "__init" or "__initdata",
as in

static struct platform_driver asus_ec_sensors_platform_driver __initdata = {

to mark a function or data structure as __init. I don't think adding
"_probe" to the struct platform_driver variable name does that.

Guenter