From patchwork Tue Jul 21 21:25:27 2009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: =?utf-8?q?Uwe_Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= X-Patchwork-Id: 30056 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A115AB6F20 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:25:51 +1000 (EST) Received: by ozlabs.org (Postfix) id 8443FDDD04; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:25:51 +1000 (EST) Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.176.167]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D82DDD01 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:25:51 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755145AbZGUVZk (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:25:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754461AbZGUVZk (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:25:40 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:53209 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753787AbZGUVZj (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:25:39 -0400 Received: from octopus.hi.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MTMqA-0006zb-0B; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:38 +0200 Received: from ukl by octopus.hi.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MTMq9-0008P0-H3; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:37 +0200 From: =?utf-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Chris Zankel , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [PATCH] move xtsonic's probe function to .devinit.text Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:25:27 +0200 Message-Id: <1248211527-32253-6-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.3 In-Reply-To: <1248211527-32253-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> References: <1248211527-32253-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org A pointer to xtsonic_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 Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/net/xtsonic.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/xtsonic.c b/drivers/net/xtsonic.c index 5a4ad15..0c44135 100644 --- a/drivers/net/xtsonic.c +++ b/drivers/net/xtsonic.c @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ out: * Actually probing is superfluous but we're paranoid. */ -int __init xtsonic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) +int __devinit xtsonic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct net_device *dev; struct sonic_local *lp;