[PATCH 07/29] move efifb's probe function to .devinit.text

[Uwe Kleine-KÃnig]

A pointer to efifb_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-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/video/efifb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/efifb.c b/drivers/video/efifb.c
index eb12182..2161f21 100644
--- a/drivers/video/efifb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/efifb.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static int __init efifb_setup(char *options)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int __init efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
+static int __devinit efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
 	struct fb_info *info;
 	int err;
-- 
1.6.6

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