[PATCH] ARM: integrator: fix section mismatch problem

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jun 4 03:56:57 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:53:22PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> However the module driver model of the Integrator LM bus
> assumes that logic tile drivers can be probed at runtime. This
> is not really the case for IM-PD1: these tiles are detected at
> boot and they cannot be plugged into a running system. Before
> this patch it is of course possible to modprobe them later.

Check whether you can bind/unbind the driver via sysfs.  Merely making
stuff non-modular is really just a hack around this problem where the
device model can be used to bind/unbind devices.

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