---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 17:48 Subject: [PATCH] vesafb: use platform_driver_probe() instead of platform_driver_register() To: u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, gregkh@xxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Commit c2e13037e6794bd0d9de3f9ecabf5615f15c160b introduced a huge amount of section mismatch warnings in vesafb code. Rather than converting all of the annotations, do the obvious and revert the __init -> __devinit change, and use the recommended (in that patch) alternative to calling platform_driver_register(): vesafb depends on information obtained from by kernel at boot time, cannot be a module, and no post-boot devices can ever show up. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/vesafb.c | 26 +++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.34-rc2/drivers/video/vesafb.c +++ 2.6.34-rc2-vesafb-init/drivers/video/vesafb.c @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static int __init vesafb_setup(char *opt return 0; } -static int __devinit vesafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) +static int __init vesafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev) { struct fb_info *info; int i, err; @@ -477,7 +477,6 @@ err: } static struct platform_driver vesafb_driver = { - .probe = vesafb_probe, .driver = { .name = "vesafb", }, @@ -493,20 +492,21 @@ static int __init vesafb_init(void) /* ignore error return of fb_get_options */ fb_get_options("vesafb", &option); vesafb_setup(option); - ret = platform_driver_register(&vesafb_driver); + vesafb_device = platform_device_alloc("vesafb", 0); + if (!vesafb_device) + return -ENOMEM; + + ret = platform_device_add(vesafb_device); if (!ret) { - vesafb_device = platform_device_alloc("vesafb", 0); + ret = platform_driver_probe(&vesafb_driver, vesafb_probe); + if (ret) + platform_device_del(vesafb_device); + } - if (vesafb_device) - ret = platform_device_add(vesafb_device); - else - ret = -ENOMEM; - - if (ret) { - platform_device_put(vesafb_device); - platform_driver_unregister(&vesafb_driver); - } + if (ret) { + platform_device_put(vesafb_device); + vesafb_device = NULL; } return ret; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html