Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:58:09 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= 
	<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform_driver_register:  warn if probe is in
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 10:46:31PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:59:20AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:00:14PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > 
> > > > > Are you conviced and took the patch or did you give up to convince me?
> > > > 
> > > > Heh, no, sorry, it got burried in my queue.
> > > > 
> > > > > I still think the patch is correct and I'd like to have it applied.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok, let's test it out in the linux-next tree for a while to make sure it
> > > > works properly.  Care to send me an updated version?
> > > I updated to latest Linus' master.  It applies to linux-next from
> > > Fri Jul 10 14:44:30 2009 +1000 as is.
> > > 
> > > Back some time I sent a series that fixes many of these bugs.  I will
> > > update it later today and resend.
> > > 
> > > Best regards and thanks,
> > > Uwe
> > > 
> > > ---->8----
> > > From: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] platform_driver_register:  warn if probe is in .init.text
> > > 
> > > with HOTPLUG=y it's wrong to register a platform_driver whose probe
> > > function lives in .init.text because the probe function can be called
> > > (e.g. via sysfs or by registering a device late) after the init sections
> > > are already discarded.  This results in an oops.
> > > 
> > > So warn if such a driver is registered.
> > > 
> > > Without HOTPLUG the probe function can (and should) be discarded if the
> > > driver is registered while the init sections are still available.
> > > In this case warn if the probe function isn't discarded later.  (As
> > > described in the comments there is a small chance for a wrong warning.
> > > But as HOTPLUG=n is unusual today and the situation is strage enough to
> > > be cleaned up anyhow, I think this is OK.)
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > 
> > This code kills the build in very bad ways :(
> it's just a ; that didn't made it into the new version.  Don't know why.
> 
> If you squash the patch below into the patch I sent it should work
> again.

I don't have the original anymore :(

As it seemed that a lot of people who controlled the problem drivers
didn't like the patches, what are you considering doing now?

thanks,

greg k-h
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