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authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>2009-07-21 11:25:24 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-07-23 18:01:06 -0700
commitdd93667711761362b393cfbd5959bb11aa1fa80d (patch)
treec01896f19458b3fa16722b9322a29f37da552881 /drivers/net/meth.c
parent2e76baea67fa74442938afd3417170b28e7aac86 (diff)
downloadlinux-dd93667711761362b393cfbd5959bb11aa1fa80d.tar.gz
net: move meth's probe function to .devinit.text
A pointer to meth_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.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/meth.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/meth.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/meth.c b/drivers/net/meth.c
index abea35de255f..92ceb689b4d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/meth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/meth.c
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops meth_netdev_ops = {
 /*
  * The init function.
  */
-static int __init meth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int __devinit meth_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
 	struct meth_private *priv;