On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:01:44AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark > > to my driver-core git tree which can be found at > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6.git > in the driver-core-linus branch. > > The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree > (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) > > The patch will hopefully also will be merged in Linus's tree for the > next -rc kernel release. > > If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. > > > From bb2b43fefab723f4a0760146e7bed59d41a50e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:44:19 -0700 > Subject: drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark > platform_device_register_resndata() as __init_or_module > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > This reverts 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4 ("Driver core: move platform device > creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n)"). That patch assumed that > platform_device_register_resndata() is only ever called from __init code > but that isn't true in the case ioctl->drm_ioctl->radeon_cp_init(). > > Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35192 > > Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Anthony Basile <[email protected]> > Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> > Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/base/platform.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c > index 1c291af..6040717 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/platform.c > +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c > @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_device_unregister); > * > * Returns &struct platform_device pointer on success, or ERR_PTR() on error. > */ I'd like to have a comment here that says that there is only one user that requires platform_device_register_resndata to be in .text and a similar comment at the use. IIRC it was somewhere in the radeon driver.
Best regards Uwe > -struct platform_device *__init_or_module platform_device_register_resndata( > +struct platform_device *platform_device_register_resndata( > struct device *parent, > const char *name, int id, > const struct resource *res, unsigned int num, -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
