Re: [PATCH] irqchip/qcom-irq-combiner: Rename driver struct to end in _driver

From: Konrad Dybcio
Date: Tue Jul 01 2025 - 03:41:10 EST




On 30-Jun-25 20:31, Jeff Hugo wrote:
> On 6/30/2025 11:25 AM, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 30-Jun-25 19:23, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> The modpost section mismatch checks are more lax for objects that have a
>>> name that ends in "_probe". This is not justified here though, so rename
>>> the driver struct according to the usual naming choice.
>>>
>>> Note that this change indeed results in modpost identifying a section
>>> mismatch in this driver. This is not a false positive and should be
>>> fixed by either converting the driver to use platform_driver_probe() or
>>> by dropping __init from the .probe() callback. This problem was
>>> introduced in commit f20cc9b00c7b ("irqchip/qcom: Add IRQ combiner
>>> driver").
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I don't know if platform_driver_probe() works here, it might happen that
>>> the driver is probed before the matching device appears. As I don't have
>>> a machine with such a device I won't create a patch fixing the issue,
>>> but if you have questions don't hesitate to ask.
>>>
>>> Please consider this patch as a bug report and better only apply it when
>>> the issue is addressed to not result in build regressions.
>>
>> +Jeff is probably the last person on Earth that officially has one
>
> We are talking about QDF2400 here?

Yes (or anything from the same family)

Konrad