Re: [RFC, PATCH] watchdog on gpio

[Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:45:25 -0500
"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:

> there is no hard requirement anywhere that says platform resources
> must be in the board resources file.  marking the functions as __init
> instead of __devinit will basically cause a kernel crash if someone
> tries to use dynamic platform resources.  there is no option that i'm
> aware of that prevents dynamic platform resources which means there is
> no way for the driver to say "i wont work with standard dynamic
> platform resources".

There is: platform_driver_probe(). It takes the probe function as a
parameter so that it can be left out of the platform_driver struct.
After it returns, there are no references to the probe function left
around, so if you call platform_driver_probe() instead of
platform_driver_register(), the probe function can be __init.

I agree that the driver is not safe in its current form.

Haavard