2009/12/9 Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:34:21PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
>> Hi Uwe.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Subject: spi-imx: use platform_driver_probe as probe lives in .init.text
>> > From: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > Using platform_driver_register with a probe function defined using __init
>> > is wrong.
>> >
>> > This fixes an oops after:
>> >
>> >        cd /sys/bus/platform/drivers/spi_imx
>> >        echo -n spi_imx.0 > unbind
>> >        echo -n spi_imx.0 > bind
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: David Brownell <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: Daniel Mack <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: Grant Likely <[email protected]>
>> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
>> > ---
>> >
>> >  drivers/spi/spi_imx.c |    3 +--
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff -puN 
>> > drivers/spi/spi_imx.c~spi-imx-use-platform_driver_probe-as-probe-lives-in-inittext
>> >  drivers/spi/spi_imx.c
>> > --- 
>> > a/drivers/spi/spi_imx.c~spi-imx-use-platform_driver_probe-as-probe-lives-in-inittext
>> > +++ a/drivers/spi/spi_imx.c
>> > @@ -666,13 +666,12 @@ static struct platform_driver spi_imx_dr
>> >                   .name = DRIVER_NAME,
>> >                   .owner = THIS_MODULE,
>> >                   },
>> > -       .probe = spi_imx_probe,
>> >        .remove = __exit_p(spi_imx_remove),
>>
>> This looks wrong.  Why can't spi_imx_probe and spi_imx_remove be
>> changed to be __devinit and __devexit?
> I don't care much, but I thought this to be in accordance to
>
>        d1e44d9 (SPI driver runtime footprint shrinkage)
>
> (http://git.kernel.org/linus/d1e44d9).  I have a whole bunch of such
> patches and already sent it three times (I think).  There is no
> accordance in the community that one of the two possibilities is better
> than the other.

hmmm.  I don't like the pattern, but I'm not going to reject it out of
hand.  Let me think about it for a bit.

g.

-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

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