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From: <gregkh@suse•de>
To: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de, 12o3l@tiscali•nl,
	akpm@linux-foundation•org, gregkh@suse•de,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, rmk+kernel@arm•linux.org.uk
Subject: patch net-move-am79c961-s-probe-function-to-.devinit.text.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:15:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12664413002764@kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265313417-5568-9-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Subject: net: move am79c961's probe function to .devinit.text

to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is

    net-move-am79c961-s-probe-function-to-.devinit.text.patch

This tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/


From u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de  Wed Feb 17 12:45:57 2010
From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de>
Date: Thu,  4 Feb 2010 20:56:57 +0100
Subject: net: move am79c961's probe function to .devinit.text
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse•de>
Cc: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali•nl>, Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm•linux.org.uk>, netdev@vger•kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
Message-ID: <1265313417-5568-9-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de>

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix•de>

A pointer to am79c961_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: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali•nl>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm•linux.org.uk>
Cc: <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse•de>

---
 drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops am79c
 #endif
 };
 
-static int __init am79c961_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int __devinit am79c961_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct resource *res;
 	struct net_device *dev;


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100203150850.GA28815@kroah.com>
2010-02-04 19:56 ` [PATCH 9/9] net: move am79c961's probe function to .devinit.text Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-04 20:05   ` David Miller
2010-02-04 20:06     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-12 20:11       ` David Miller
2010-02-17 20:46       ` Greg KH
2010-02-17 21:15   ` gregkh [this message]

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