[RFC][PATCH v3 1/3] runtime interpreted power sequences

[Mark Brown]

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.