Re: Commit 7a192ec is build breaking

[Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>]

2009/4/4 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:00:49PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
>> The commit:
>>
>>     platform driver: fix incorrect use of 'platform_bus_type' with 'struct device_driver'
>>
>> contains this:
>>
>> -static int __exit pxa2xx_flash_remove(struct device *dev)
>> +static int __exit pxa2xx_flash_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>> ...
>> -       .remove         = __exit_p(pxa2xx_flash_remove),
>> +       .remove         = __devexit_p(pxa2xx_flash_remove),
>>
>> which leads to the following build error:
>>
>> `pxa2xx_flash_remove' referenced in section `.data' of drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/built-in.o
>>
>> This is not the only instance of it in this patch - all __exit_p's
>> touched by this patch have been converted to __devexit_p's without
>> regard to the original function.
>>
>> Let's revert this change and, if we are going to convert functions
>> to be __devexit/__devinit, lets have that as a _separate_ patch doing
>> just that change.
>
> Ick, Ming, any thoughts?  I'll revert your patch as it looks like it is
> incorrect in this way.

OK, revert the patch ,please.
I'll resend a patch to fix incorrect use of 'platform_bus_type' ,
which does not touch
__exit_p.

Thanks!

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>



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Lei Ming