Re: [PATCH] make mmci-omap using platform_driver_probe

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 13:52:02 EST


Hello,

Ups, sorry, I got the In-Reply-To wrong. This should have been a reply
to <1238196439-16535-27-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

Best regards
Uwe

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:47:41PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> A pointer to mmc_omap_probe which lives in .init.text is passed to the
> core via platform_driver_register and so the kernel might oops if probe
> is called after the init code is discarded.
>
> As requested by David Brownell platform_driver_probe is used instead of
> moving the probe function to .devinit.text. This saves some memory, but
> might have the downside that a device being registered after the call to
> mmc_omap_init but before the init sections are discarded will not be
> bound anymore to the driver.

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