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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:09:56 +0100
From: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:56:06 +0300
Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:56:49PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > A pointer to a probe callback 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.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
> > Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
> > Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
> > Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <Kristoffer.Ericson@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com>
> > Cc: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> > Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
> 
> sharpsl_pm part:
> Acked-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>

jornada part:
Acked-by: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>

> 
> -- 
> With best wishes
> Dmitry
> 


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Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
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