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| author | Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> | 2023-11-06 16:48:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> | 2023-12-17 16:14:18 +0100 |
| commit | 86aa2919f1ae4ee7f90260d028f7572263d1c715 (patch) | |
| tree | c374832032ea5a1251ab2bc802c462d6260c4005 /drivers/watchdog | |
| parent | MAINTAINERS: rectify entry for DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR DRIVERS (diff) | |
| download | linux-86aa2919f1ae4ee7f90260d028f7572263d1c715.tar.xz linux-86aa2919f1ae4ee7f90260d028f7572263d1c715.zip | |
watchdog: at91sam9: 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/at91sam9_wdt: section mismatch in reference: at91wdt_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> at91wdt_remove (section: .exit.text)
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231106154807.3866712-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/watchdog')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c index b111b28acb94..507adb12754d 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static inline int of_at91wdt_init(struct device_node *np, struct at91wdt *wdt) } #endif -static int __init at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) +static int at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { int err; struct at91wdt *wdt; @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static int __init at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return 0; } -static int __exit at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) +static int at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct at91wdt *wdt = platform_get_drvdata(pdev); watchdog_unregister_device(&wdt->wdd); @@ -393,14 +393,14 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, at91_wdt_dt_ids); #endif static struct platform_driver at91wdt_driver = { - .remove = __exit_p(at91wdt_remove), + .probe = at91wdt_probe, + .remove = at91wdt_remove, .driver = { .name = "at91_wdt", .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(at91_wdt_dt_ids), }, }; - -module_platform_driver_probe(at91wdt_driver, at91wdt_probe); +module_platform_driver(at91wdt_driver); MODULE_AUTHOR("Renaud CERRATO <r.cerrato@til-technologies.fr>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Watchdog driver for Atmel AT91SAM9x processors"); |