Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:13:29 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences |
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:56:40PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:32:20PM +0900, Alex Courbot wrote:
> > The thing is that I am not sure what happens to the platform data > > once probe() is done. Isn't it customary to mark it with __devinit > > and have it freed after probing is successful?
> No, platform data should stay around forever. Otherwise, consider what > would happen if your driver is built as a module and you unload and load > it again.
__devinit can be discarded if you disable enough kernel features, HOTPLUG is the main one IIRC, modules might also need to go - drivers really ought to take a copy of platform data they plan to use at runtime, though practically speaking you have to try to trigger any problems.
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