On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:37 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 12:19 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > The MODULE_DEV_TABLE was added so userspace has an easier time loading > > a > > driver for the device, without special rules. It wasn't meant to make > > the driver hot-pluggable. I think the idea that a module alias is just > > for hotplug is a little short-sighted. > > The module device table isn't the problem. The problem is the fact that > you marked the table __devinitdata. __devinitdata is a sectional > marking that causes the table to be placed in a discardable init data > section for CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n. However, the routines accessing it still > occur in the standard text segment hence the mismatch. If you want to > mark data __devinitdata, you have to ensure that all the routines > accessing it are marked __devinit. I know what the section is :) I wasn't aware that it was causing a problem with HOTPLUG=n. I'll get a patch to fix it up. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
