Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mmc_spi: export probe and remove functions

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 08:19:44 EST


On Fri, 23 May 2008 22:28:34 +0400
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ...so we'll able to write bindings for the OpenFirmware without
> messing with #ifdefs in the driver itself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This looks extremely wrong. Encapsulating probe functions isn't exactly
in line with the device model and bound to confuse people.

Your patches doesn't give a complete picture of the OF side of things,
but can't you solve this by having an init callback somewhere?

Rgds
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