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

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

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@baylibre.com>
> ---
> 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

Konrad