On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 04:48:10PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König 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. > > The downside of platform_driver_probe() is that the driver cannot be > bound and unbound at runtime which is ancient and also slightly > complicates testing. There are also thoughts to deprecate > platform_driver_probe() because it adds some complexity in the driver > core for little gain. Also many drivers don't use it correctly. This > driver for example misses to mark the driver struct with __refdata which > is needed to suppress a (W=1) modpost warning: > > WARNING: modpost: drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt: section mismatch in reference: txx9wdt_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> txx9wdt_remove (section: .exit.text) > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
