Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:05:59 +0200
From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= 
	<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 012/143] USB: move twl4030_usb's probe function to
	.devinit.text
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Hi Greg,

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:22:07PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> A pointer to twl4030_usb_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.
I wonder if this kind of error could be detected automatically.  That is
at probe time check if the probe function is in the .init.text section.

Best regards
Uwe

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