[v3 PATCH 7/9] watchdog/at91sam9_wdt: Use module_platform_driver()

[Yang, Wenyou]

Hi Fabio Porcedda,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabio Porcedda [mailto:fabio.porcedda at gmail.com]
> Sent: 2013年1月8日 18:18
> To: Yang, Wenyou
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Ferre, Nicolas; Jean-Christophe
> PLAGNIOL-VILLARD; Lin, JM; Wim Van Sebroeck;
> linux-watchdog at vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Geert
> Uytterhoeven
> Subject: Re: [v3 PATCH 7/9] watchdog/at91sam9_wdt: Use
> module_platform_driver()
> 
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang at atmel.com>
> wrote:
> > Using module_platform_driver() replaces module_init() and module_exit()
> > and makes the code simpler.
> >
> > Remove '__init' annotation from the function 'at91wdt_probe'
> > since the driver becomes hot-plug aware now.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wenyou Yang <wenyou.yang at atmel.com>
> > Cc: wim at iguana.be
> > Cc: linux-watchdog at vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c |   16 +++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c
> b/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c
> > index 94be9d6..7c13dda 100644
> > --- a/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c
> > @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static struct watchdog_device at91wdt_wdd = {
> >         .ops = &at91wdt_ops,
> >  };
> >
> > -static int __init at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > +static int at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  {
> >         struct at91wdt_drvdata *driver_data;
> >         struct resource *r;
> > @@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, at91_wdt_dt_ids);
> >  #endif
> >
> >  static struct platform_driver at91wdt_driver = {
> > +       .probe          = at91wdt_probe,
> >         .remove         = __exit_p(at91wdt_remove),
> >         .driver         = {
> >                 .name   = "at91_wdt",
> > @@ -281,18 +282,7 @@ static struct platform_driver at91wdt_driver = {
> >         },
> >  };
> >
> > -static int __init at91sam_wdt_init(void)
> > -{
> > -       return platform_driver_probe(&at91wdt_driver, at91wdt_probe);
> > -}
> > -
> > -static void __exit at91sam_wdt_exit(void)
> > -{
> > -       platform_driver_unregister(&at91wdt_driver);
> > -}
> > -
> > -module_init(at91sam_wdt_init);
> > -module_exit(at91sam_wdt_exit);
> > +module_platform_driver(at91wdt_driver);
> >
> >  MODULE_AUTHOR("Renaud CERRATO <r.cerrato at til-technologies.fr>");
> >  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Watchdog driver for Atmel AT91SAM9x
> processors");
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
> >
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> 
> The module_platform_driver isn't a substitute of platform_driver_probe,
> because module_platform_driver  use platform_driver_register/unregister.
> Using that macro we lose the advantage of platform_driver_probe,
> as stated in:
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/10/335
I just referred to the commit 6b761b2902c56b468370e0ee1691c37e0dae042a.
Didn't think more about it.
I will remove this patch in the next version.

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 21:47, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>
> wrote:
> > [...]
> >Still, setting up platform_driver.probe and removing __init from all probe
> >functions is not the right thing to do, as this make (non-__init) kernel code
> >size bigger, while none of these devices are hotpluggable and thus cannot
> >appear after bootup. That's why we have platform_driver_probe() in the
> >first place. So I think all of this should be reverted for non-hotpluggable
> >drivers.
> > [...]

You said is reasonable, watchdog is not hotpluggable.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> --
> Fabio Porcedda

Best Regards,
Wenyou Yang