On 20-09-18, 00:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Because __init things go away at one point and calling them from the > other sections is a bad idea. OTOH, __exit things are simply not > needed in built-in drivers and they are never there if the driver is > built-in, so calling them from the other sections is a bad idea too.
I assumed that the driver is calling platform_driver_probe() and so probe() can be marked __init. But it doesn't do that to make deferred probing work. -- viresh
