On 12/10/2015 at 15:14:05 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote : > The davinci rtc driver uses the module_platform_driver_probe() > helper to call the probe function and mark it as __init, but > it also puts a reference into its davinci_rtc_driver function. > > This will crash if we ever get a deferred probe and the probe > function is called again after the init section has been removed. > kbuild warns about this: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1aa2b4): Section mismatch in reference from the > variable davinci_rtc_driver to the function .init.text:davinci_rtc_probe() > The variable davinci_rtc_driver references > the function __init davinci_rtc_probe() > > This patch removes the .probe callback from the platform driver, > which avoids those problems. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> Applied, thanks.
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