On today's platforms the benefit of platform_driver_probe() isn't that
relevant any more. It allows to drop some code after booting (or module
loading) for .probe() and discard the .remove() function completely if
the driver is built-in. This typically saves a few 100k.
The downside of platform_driver_probe() is that the driver cannot be
bound and unbound at runtime which is ancient and also slightly
complicates testing. There are also thoughts to deprecate
platform_driver_probe() because it adds some complexity in the driver
core for little gain. Also many drivers don't use it correctly. This
driver for example misses to mark the driver struct with __refdata which
is needed to suppress a (W=1) modpost warning:
WARNING: modpost: drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb: section mismatch in reference: atmel_lcdfb_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> atmel_lcdfb_remove (section: .exit.text)
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
index a908db233409..b218731ef732 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ static int atmel_lcdfb_of_init(struct atmel_lcdfb_info *sinfo)
return ret;
}
-static int __init atmel_lcdfb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int atmel_lcdfb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct fb_info *info;
@@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ static int __init atmel_lcdfb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return ret;
}
-static int __exit atmel_lcdfb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static int atmel_lcdfb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
struct fb_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
@@ -1301,7 +1301,8 @@ static int atmel_lcdfb_resume(struct platform_device *pdev)
#endif
static struct platform_driver atmel_lcdfb_driver = {
- .remove = __exit_p(atmel_lcdfb_remove),
+ .probe = atmel_lcdfb_probe,
+ .remove = atmel_lcdfb_remove,
.suspend = atmel_lcdfb_suspend,
.resume = atmel_lcdfb_resume,
.driver = {
@@ -1310,7 +1311,7 @@ static struct platform_driver atmel_lcdfb_driver = {
},
};
-module_platform_driver_probe(atmel_lcdfb_driver, atmel_lcdfb_probe);
+module_platform_driver(atmel_lcdfb_driver, );
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AT91 LCD Controller framebuffer driver");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@xxxxxxxxx>");
--
2.42.0
