On 12/10/2015 at 15:14:05 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote :
> The davinci rtc driver uses the module_platform_driver_probe()
> helper to call the probe function and mark it as __init, but
> it also puts a reference into its davinci_rtc_driver function.
> 
> This will crash if we ever get a deferred probe and the probe
> function is called again after the init section has been removed.
> kbuild warns about this:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1aa2b4): Section mismatch in reference from the 
> variable davinci_rtc_driver to the function .init.text:davinci_rtc_probe()
> The variable davinci_rtc_driver references
> the function __init davinci_rtc_probe()
> 
> This patch removes the .probe callback from the platform driver,
> which avoids those problems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks.

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