Re: + drivers-base-platformc-dont-mark-platform_device_register_resndata-as-__init_or_module.patch added to -mm tree

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

Hello,

[added some people involved in the thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/41996 to Cc:]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:57:36PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
>      drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark platform_device_register_resndata() as __init_or_module
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      drivers-base-platformc-dont-mark-platform_device_register_resndata-as-__init_or_module.patch
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark platform_device_register_resndata() as __init_or_module
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> This reverts 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4 ("Driver core: move platform device
> creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n)").  That patch assumed that
> platform_device_register_resndata() is only ever called from __init code
> but that isn't true in the case ioctl->drm_ioctl->radeon_cp_init().
> 
> Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35192
I'm not sure that the things that radeon_cp_init does are sane. Maybe
add a comment that it is the only known stopper to make
platform_device_register_resndata __init_or_module and a similar comment
to platform_device_register_resndata itself?

Best regards
Uwe

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