Re: section mismatch with a platform driver

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From: Randy Dunlap

Subject: Re: section mismatch with a platform driver

Date: Monday, October 13, 2008 - 12:00 pm

Neshama Parhoti wrote:
quoted text> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Does that mean that all drivers with __init in their probe functions are bogus ?
>> It depends.  If your platform doesn't support hotplug, then it's possible
>> that the probe function is only called during system init, so it would be OK.
> 
> Hmm any idea then why did it give me a section mismatch warning ?

Just because the probe function is marked __init.
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section mismatch with a platform driver, Neshama Parhoti, (Mon Oct 13, 1:19 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Oct 13, 1:51 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Neshama Parhoti, (Mon Oct 13, 2:28 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Gilad Ben-Yossef, (Mon Oct 13, 2:43 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Oct 13, 2:50 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Neshama Parhoti, (Mon Oct 13, 4:11 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Neshama Parhoti, (Mon Oct 13, 4:13 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Oct 13, 9:01 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Neshama Parhoti, (Mon Oct 13, 9:29 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Oct 13, 9:31 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Neshama Parhoti, (Mon Oct 13, 11:58 am)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Oct 13, 12:00 pm)

Re: section mismatch with a platform driver, sniper, (Mon Oct 13, 1:22 pm)


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