Re: [PATCH 10/58] move corgi-ssp's probe function to .devinit.text

2009/3/28 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
A pointer to corgi_ssp_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (when 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.


These files are supposed to be deprecated and I'm planning to remove
them once drivers/input/touchscreen/corgi-ts.c begins its migration to
ads7846.c (with a posted fix currently queued in the -mm tree). Other
than corgi-ts.c, there will be no reference to them.
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