Re: [PATCH] register at91_ether using platform_driver_probe

[David Miller]

From: Andrew Victor <avictor.za@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:46:24 +0200

> hi,
> 
>> at91ether_probe lives in .init.text, so using platform_driver_register
>> to register it is wrong because binding a device after the init memory
>> is discarded (e.g. via sysfs) results in an oops.
>>
>> As requested by David Brownell platform_driver_probe is used instead of
>> moving the probe function to .devinit.text as proposed initially.
>> This saves some memory, but devices registered after the driver is
>> probed are not bound (probably there are none) and binding via sysfs
>> isn't possible.
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Victor <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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