From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758879AbZGKVCk (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:02:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756335AbZGKUya (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:54:30 -0400 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:33046 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755641AbZGKUyG (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:54:06 -0400 From: =?utf-8?q?Uwe=20Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= To: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Helge Deller , James Simmons , Andrew Morton , Antonino Daplas Subject: [PATCH] move vesafb's probe function to .devinit.text Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:53:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1247345591-22643-39-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1247345591-22643-38-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> References: <20090711170548.GC5205@suse.de> <1247345591-22643-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-2-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-3-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-4-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-5-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-6-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-7-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-8-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-9-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-10-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-11-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-12-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-13-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-14-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-15-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-16-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-17-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-18-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-19-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-20-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-21-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-22-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-23-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-24-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-25-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-26-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-27-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-28-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-29-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-30-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-31-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-32-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-33-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-34-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-35-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-36-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-37-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <1247345591-22643-38-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A pointer to vesafb_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 Cc: Helge Deller Cc: James Simmons Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Antonino Daplas --- drivers/video/vesafb.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/vesafb.c b/drivers/video/vesafb.c index bd37ee1..ef4128c 100644 --- a/drivers/video/vesafb.c +++ b/drivers/video/vesafb.c @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int __init vesafb_setup(char *options) return 0; } -static int __init vesafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) +static int __devinit vesafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) { struct fb_info *info; int i, err; -- 1.6.3.1