Re: [PATCH 07/58] move cfag12864bfb's probe function to .devinit.text

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Sat Mar 28 2009 - 14:46:10 EST


2009/3/27 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> A pointer to cfag12864bfb_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.
>

ACK, thank you!

> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Avuton Olrich <avuton@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c
> index fe3a865..b0ca5a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/cfag12864bfb.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static struct fb_ops cfag12864bfb_ops = {
>        .fb_mmap = cfag12864bfb_mmap,
>  };
>
> -static int __init cfag12864bfb_probe(struct platform_device *device)
> +static int __devinit cfag12864bfb_probe(struct platform_device *device)
>  {
>        int ret = -EINVAL;
>        struct fb_info *info = framebuffer_alloc(0, &device->dev);
> --
> 1.6.2
>
>
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