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From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Adrian McMenamin <lkmladrian@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Correct use of __init and __devinit
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:50:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071226235012.04373e0d@siona> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071224130143.GA27530@uranus.ravnborg.org>

On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:01:43 +0100
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> So of the principle of least suprise it is best to use __devinit
> for the probe function as most other drivers do. And if
> the driver model happens to call your probe function after
> init time then we will not oops.

If you're dealing with platform_devices, you can use
platform_driver_probe() and remove the probe() function from the
platform_driver struct to ensure this never happens.

This is only ok for non-hotpluggable devices, of course.

Haavard

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-26 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-23 16:56 Correct use of __init and __devinit Adrian McMenamin
2007-12-24 13:01 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-12-26 22:50   ` Haavard Skinnemoen [this message]

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