[PATCH 58/58] move xtsonic's probe function to .devinit.text

Uwe Kleine-König
2009-03-27T23:29:30Z

A pointer to xtsonic_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded. Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
drivers/net/xtsonic.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xtsonic.c b/drivers/net/xtsonic.c
index a12a721..10f69f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xtsonic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xtsonic.c
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ out:
* Actually probing is superfluous but we're paranoid.
*/

-int __init xtsonic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+int __devinit xtsonic_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct net_device *dev;
struct sonic_local *lp;
--
1.6.2