> From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 21:34:29 -0400
>
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 21:23, David Brownell wrote:
> > This defines a new platform_driver_probe() method allowing the driver's
> > probe() method, and its support code+data, to safely live in __init
> > sections for common system configurations.
> >
>
> If you do this you also need to kill drivers bind/unbind attributes
> to show that dynamic [un]binding is not supported.
Unbinding hasn't changed; so if that attribute breaks because of this,
it was already broken.
It might be important that drv->probe() be replaced with something
that always fails though, since it seems there's an odd assumption
that not having a probe() means the driver works for any device...
- Dave
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