netdev - [PATCH] move sb1250-mac's probe function to .devinit.text

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:25 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Weiwei Wang <weiwei.wang@...driver.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] move sb1250-mac's probe function to .devinit.text

A pointer to sbmac_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: Weiwei Wang <weiwei.wang@...driver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org

---
 drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
index d8c9cf1..96b37b9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ static int sbmac_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)
 }

-static int __init sbmac_probe(struct platform_device *pldev)
+static int __devinit sbmac_probe(struct platform_device *pldev)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct sbmac_softc *sc;
-- 
tg: (aea1f79..) t/platsection/sbmac_driver (depends on: linus/master)
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