A pointer to snirm710_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: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
---
drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c b/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c
index 37b3359..56cf0bb 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template snirm710_template = {
.module = THIS_MODULE,
};
-static int __init snirm710_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
+static int __devinit snirm710_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
{
unsigned long base;
struct NCR_700_Host_Parameters *hostdata;
--
1.6.6
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