From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200908062305.n76N5Y08004955@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Subject: [patch 5/8] mtd: register orion_nand using platform_driver_probe() To: dwmw2@infradead.org From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:05:34 -0700 Cc: nico@marvell.com, joern@logfs.org, gregkh@suse.de, saeed@marvell.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, buytenh@marvell.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Uwe Kleine-König orion_nand_probe lives in .init.text, so using platform_driver_register to register it is wrong because binding a device after the init memory is discarded (e.g. via sysfs) results in an oops. As requested by Nicolas Pitre platform_driver_probe is used instead of moving the probe function to .devinit.text as proposed initially. This saves some memory, but devices registered after the driver is probed are not bound (probably there are none) and binding via sysfs isn't possible. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Cc: Lennert Buytenhek Cc: Saeed Bishara Cc: Joern Engel Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c~mtd-register-orion_nand-using-platform_driver_probe drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c~mtd-register-orion_nand-using-platform_driver_probe +++ a/drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c @@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ static int __devexit orion_nand_remove(s } static struct platform_driver orion_nand_driver = { - .probe = orion_nand_probe, .remove = __devexit_p(orion_nand_remove), .driver = { .name = "orion_nand", @@ -181,7 +180,7 @@ static struct platform_driver orion_nand static int __init orion_nand_init(void) { - return platform_driver_register(&orion_nand_driver); + return platform_driver_probe(&orion_nand_driver, orion_nand_probe); } static void __exit orion_nand_exit(void) _