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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:26:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:41:13AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Sure there is - take a copy of the platform data in probe().

> Yes, but that will only work for built-in drivers. If you unload the
> module and that causes the platform data to be discarded, reloading
> won't work.

This is why __devinit data will only be discarded when this is not
possible.