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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 02:57:36PM -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:

The patch titled drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark platform_device_register_resndata() as __init_or_module has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-base-platformc-dont-mark-platform_device_register_resndata-as-__init_or_module.patch

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Subject: drivers/base/platform.c: don't mark platform_device_register_resndata() as __init_or_module From: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org

This reverts 737a3bb9416ce2a7c7a4 ("Driver core: move platform device creation helpers to .init.text (if MODULE=n)"). That patch assumed that platform_device_register_resndata() is only ever called from __init code but that isn't true in the case ioctl->drm_ioctl->radeon_cp_init().

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35192

I'm not sure that the things that radeon_cp_init does are sane. Maybe add a comment that it is the only known stopper to make platform_device_register_resndata __init_or_module and a similar comment to platform_device_register_resndata itself?

Best regards Uwe