Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: qcom-kryo: Fix section mismatch warning

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 12:02:50 EST


On 20-09-18, 00:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Because __init things go away at one point and calling them from the
> other sections is a bad idea. OTOH, __exit things are simply not
> needed in built-in drivers and they are never there if the driver is
> built-in, so calling them from the other sections is a bad idea too.

I assumed that the driver is calling platform_driver_probe() and so probe() can
be marked __init. But it doesn't do that to make deferred probing work.

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