Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/stm: Fix section mismatches

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 02:32:18PM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> You should replace __init by __init_or_module

That's not sufficient as the driver can still be rebound through sysfs
currently (the driver would probably crash anyway, but that's a separate
issue).

Also note that no drivers use __init_or_module these days, likely as
everyone uses modules and it's not worth the added complexity in trying
to get the section markers right for a build configuration that few
people care about.

I can send a follow-on patch to suppress the unbind attribute, or
include it in a v2 if you insist on using __init_or_module. 

What do you prefer?

> On 10/17/25 07:49, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > Platform drivers can be probed after their init sections have been
> > discarded (e.g. on probe deferral or manual rebind through sysfs) so the
> > probe function must not live in init. Device managed resource actions
> > similarly cannot be discarded.

Johan