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| author | Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> | 2023-11-06 16:48:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> | 2023-12-17 16:14:19 +0100 |
| commit | de81f74b11e9ffdf5362961c2efea13bef11aefd (patch) | |
| tree | c92d262cb6adab6f9a37fa52e7b8c596e5c29ab1 | |
| parent | watchdog: at91sam9: Stop using module_platform_driver_probe() (diff) | |
| download | linux-de81f74b11e9ffdf5362961c2efea13bef11aefd.tar.xz linux-de81f74b11e9ffdf5362961c2efea13bef11aefd.zip | |
watchdog: txx9: Stop using module_platform_driver_probe()
On today's platforms the benefit of platform_driver_probe() isn't that
relevant any more. It allows to drop some code after booting (or module
loading) for .probe() and discard the .remove() function completely if
the driver is built-in. This typically saves a few 100k.
The downside of platform_driver_probe() is that the driver cannot be
bound and unbound at runtime which is ancient and also slightly
complicates testing. There are also thoughts to deprecate
platform_driver_probe() because it adds some complexity in the driver
core for little gain. Also many drivers don't use it correctly. This
driver for example misses to mark the driver struct with __refdata which
is needed to suppress a (W=1) modpost warning:
WARNING: modpost: drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt: section mismatch in reference: txx9wdt_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> txx9wdt_remove (section: .exit.text)
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231106154807.3866712-3-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt.c index 89a54b6645bd..f900c519ed63 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/txx9wdt.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static struct watchdog_device txx9wdt = { .ops = &txx9wdt_ops, }; -static int __init txx9wdt_probe(struct platform_device *dev) +static int txx9wdt_probe(struct platform_device *dev) { int ret; @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ exit: return ret; } -static int __exit txx9wdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev) +static int txx9wdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev) { watchdog_unregister_device(&txx9wdt); clk_disable_unprepare(txx9_imclk); @@ -159,14 +159,14 @@ static void txx9wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev) } static struct platform_driver txx9wdt_driver = { - .remove = __exit_p(txx9wdt_remove), + .probe = txx9wdt_probe, + .remove = txx9wdt_remove, .shutdown = txx9wdt_shutdown, .driver = { .name = "txx9wdt", }, }; - -module_platform_driver_probe(txx9wdt_driver, txx9wdt_probe); +module_platform_driver(txx9wdt_driver); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("TXx9 Watchdog Driver"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); |