On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:56:40PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:32:20PM +0900, Alex Courbot wrote: > > The thing is that I am not sure what happens to the platform data > > once probe() is done. Isn't it customary to mark it with __devinit > > and have it freed after probing is successful? > No, platform data should stay around forever. Otherwise, consider what > would happen if your driver is built as a module and you unload and load > it again. __devinit can be discarded if you disable enough kernel features, HOTPLUG is the main one IIRC, modules might also need to go - drivers really ought to take a copy of platform data they plan to use at runtime, though practically speaking you have to try to trigger any problems. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
