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

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at avionic-design.de
Wed Aug 1 23:38:14 EST 2012


On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:26:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:41:13AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 04:39:41PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Sure there is - take a copy of the platform data in probe().
> 
> > Yes, but that will only work for built-in drivers. If you unload the
> > module and that causes the platform data to be discarded, reloading
> > won't work.
> 
> This is why __devinit data will only be discarded when this is not
> possible.

That's exactly my point. But I seem to have miserably failed to get that
across. =)

Thierry
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