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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 19:34:40 -0700
From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: dtor@insightbb.com
Subject: Re: [patch/RFC 2.6.18-rc] platform_device_probe(), to conserve memory
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> From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 21:34:29 -0400
>
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 21:23, David Brownell wrote:
> > This defines a new platform_driver_probe() method allowing the driver's
> > probe() method, and its support code+data, to safely live in __init
> > sections for common system configurations.
> > 
>
> If you do this you also need to kill drivers bind/unbind attributes
> to show that dynamic [un]binding is not supported.

Unbinding hasn't changed; so if that attribute breaks because of this,
it was already broken.

It might be important that drv->probe() be replaced with something
that always fails though, since it seems there's an odd assumption
that not having a probe() means the driver works for any device...

- Dave


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