On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:26:07PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > > > This is framework code - it doesn't have much option. Disabling HOTPLUG > > > is totally reasonable on space constrained systems, there's no reason > > > for the code to break things for people. > > > Still if you use this code and disable HOTPLUG, then you shouldn't be > > using modules either. I mean there is no way you can write a driver that > > Of course. > > > can gracefully handle its platform data being discarded. > > Sure there is - take a copy of the platform data in probe(). Yes, but that will only work for built-in drivers. If you unload the module and that causes the platform data to be discarded, reloading won't work. Thierry
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