Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 19:51:48 +0200
From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= 
	<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@gmail.com>,
       Pierre Ossman <drzeus-mmc@drzeus.cx>,
       David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>,
       Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
       Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>,
       Jarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>,
       Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com>,
       Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
       Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <carlos.aguiar@indt.org.br>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make mmci-omap using platform_driver_probe
Message-ID: <20090402175148.GA29544@pengutronix.de>
References: <200903280927.32786.david-b@pacbell.net> <1238694461-29501-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
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Hello,

Ups, sorry, I got the In-Reply-To wrong.  This should have been a reply
to <1238196439-16535-27-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>.

Best regards
Uwe

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:47:41PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> A pointer to mmc_omap_probe which lives in .init.text is passed to the
> core via platform_driver_register and so the kernel might oops if probe
> is called after the init code is discarded.
> 
> As requested by David Brownell platform_driver_probe is used instead of
> moving the probe function to .devinit.text.  This saves some memory, but
> might have the downside that a device being registered after the call to
> mmc_omap_init but before the init sections are discarded will not be
> bound anymore to the driver.

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