net: move meth's probe function to .devinit.text
authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:25:24 +0000 (11:25 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:01:06 +0000 (18:01 -0700)
commitdd93667711761362b393cfbd5959bb11aa1fa80d
treec01896f19458b3fa16722b9322a29f37da552881
parent2e76baea67fa74442938afd3417170b28e7aac86
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>
drivers/net/meth.c