[PATCH 10/10] drivers: misc: use module_platform_driver_probe()

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 15 March 2013, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> >> * Regarding the use of module_platform_driver_probe, I'm a little worried about
> >>   the interactions with deferred probing. I don't think there are any regressions,
> >>   but we should probably make people aware that one cannot return -EPROBE_DEFER
> >>   from a platform_driver_probe function.
> 
> The use of module_platform_driver_probe() doesn't change anything about that,
> it's exactly the same thing as using "return platform_driver_probe()".
> I'm right or I'm missing something? Maybe are you just speaking about
> the misuse of "platform_driver_probe"?

Yes, that was what I meant. The point is that if we need to review or remove
all uses of platform_driver_probe, it would be better not to introduce a
module_platform_driver_probe() interface to make it easier to use.

	Arnd