Grafting old platform drivers onto a new DT kernel

Mason slash.tmp at free.fr
Tue Nov 10 04:44:48 PST 2015


On 09/11/2015 18:13, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> Add something like this:
> 
> static const struct of_device_id tangox_sdio_dt_ids[] = {
> 	{ .compatible = "sigma,tangox-sdio" },
> 	{ }
> };
> 
> static struct platform_driver tangox_platform_sdio0 = {
> 	.probe		= sdhci_tangox_probe,

It looks like one side effect of this transformation is that
the probe function cannot be __init anymore? Is that correct?

For this one particular driver, it weighs 944 bytes. (I guess
a few kilobytes wasted is no big deal...)

Regards.




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