On 11/8/23 22:06, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 10:20 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Which is a lot on platforms with only a few MiBs of RAM...
True.
Given the warnings below, what is your suggestion?
Better to drop the amifb patch ?
Helge
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WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference:
amifb_probe+0x15c (section: .text) -> ami_modedb (section: .init.data)
...
