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From: Uwe Kleine-König on 4 Feb 2010 16:40 Hello, On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:25:07PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K�nig 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. > > sgiwd93 bits looks good, so > > Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf(a)linux-mips.org> > > The IP22 hardware doesn't support hotplugging so this bug isn't dangerous. You can still trigger it via sysfs. You need to be root though. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K�nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |