Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences

From: Thierry Reding
Date: Wed Aug 01 2012 - 09:38:13 EST


On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:41:13AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > Sure there is - take a copy of the platform data in probe().
>
> > Yes, but that will only work for built-in drivers. If you unload the
> > module and that causes the platform data to be discarded, reloading
> > won't work.
>
> This is why __devinit data will only be discarded when this is not
> possible.

That's exactly my point. But I seem to have miserably failed to get that
across. =)

Thierry

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