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H A D | at91sam9_wdt.c | diff 86aa2919f1ae4ee7f90260d028f7572263d1c715 Mon Nov 06 16:48:09 CET 2023 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> watchdog: at91sam9: Stop using module_platform_driver_probe()
On today's platforms the benefit of platform_driver_probe() isn't that relevant any more. It allows to drop some code after booting (or module loading) for .probe() and discard the .remove() function completely if the driver is built-in. This typically saves a few 100k.
The downside of platform_driver_probe() is that the driver cannot be bound and unbound at runtime which is ancient and also slightly complicates testing. There are also thoughts to deprecate platform_driver_probe() because it adds some complexity in the driver core for little gain. Also many drivers don't use it correctly. This driver for example misses to mark the driver struct with __refdata which is needed to suppress a (W=1) modpost warning:
WARNING: modpost: drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt: section mismatch in reference: at91wdt_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> at91wdt_remove (section: .exit.text)
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231106154807.3866712-2-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
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