On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

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> orion_nand_probe lives in .init.text, so using platform_driver_register
> to register it is wrong because binding a device after the init memory
> is discarded (e.g. via sysfs) results in an oops.
> 
> As requested by Nicolas Pitre platform_driver_probe is used instead of
> moving the probe function to .devinit.text as proposed initially.
> This saves some memory, but devices registered after the driver is
> probed are not bound (probably there are none) and binding via sysfs
> isn't possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
> Cc: Saeed Bishara <saeed@marvell.com>
> Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>
> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
> Cc: Tzachi Perelstein <tzachi@marvell.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>

Thanks.  BTW Tzachi's email address is no longer valid.

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> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
> index 7ad9722..cb9d13b 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ static int __devexit orion_nand_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  }
>  
>  static struct platform_driver orion_nand_driver = {
> -	.probe		= orion_nand_probe,
>  	.remove		= __devexit_p(orion_nand_remove),
>  	.driver		= {
>  		.name	= "orion_nand",
> @@ -181,7 +180,7 @@ static struct platform_driver orion_nand_driver = {
>  
>  static int __init orion_nand_init(void)
>  {
> -	return platform_driver_register(&orion_nand_driver);
> +	return platform_driver_probe(&orion_nand_driver, orion_nand_probe);
>  }
>  
>  static void __exit orion_nand_exit(void)
> -- 
> tg: (4b0a840..) t/platsection/orion_nand_driver (depends on: linus/master)
>