[PATCH 01/29] move acornfb's probe function to .devinit.text

Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:35:09 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.fbdev.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A pointer to acornfb_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/video/acornfb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/acornfb.c b/drivers/video/acornfb.c
index 0bcc59e..43d7d50 100644
--- a/drivers/video/acornfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/acornfb.c
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ free_unused_pages(unsigned int virtual_start, unsigned int virtual_end)
 	printk("acornfb: freed %dK memory\n", mb_freed);
 }
 
-static int __init acornfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
+static int __devinit acornfb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
 	unsigned long size;
 	u_int h_sync, v_sync;
-- 
1.6.6