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>
/*
* 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;