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move meth's probe function to .devinit.text

Message ID 1248211527-32253-3-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Uwe Kleine-König July 21, 2009, 9:25 p.m. UTC 
A pointer to meth_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@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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

Comments

David Miller July 22, 2009, 3:12 a.m. UTC | #1 
Applied.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/meth.c b/drivers/net/meth.c
index 5d04d94..0dddb02 100644
--- a/drivers/net/meth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/meth.c
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@  static const struct net_device_ops meth_netdev_ops = {
 /*
  * The init function.
  */
-static int __init meth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int __devinit meth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct meth_private *priv;