A pointer to am79c961_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 <redacted>
Cc: Roel Kluin <redacted>
Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
index 164b37e..1c3c1f9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops am79c961_netdev_ops = {
#endif
};
-static int __init am79c961_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int __devinit am79c961_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct resource *res;
struct net_device *dev;--
1.6.6