linux-stable-rt/drivers/base
David Brownell c67334fbdf Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace
This defines a new platform_driver_probe() method allowing the driver's
probe() method, and its support code+data, to safely live in __init
sections for typical system configurations.

Many system-on-chip processors could benefit from this API, to the tune
of recovering hundreds to thousands of bytes per driver.  That's memory
which is currently wasted holding code which can never be called after
system startup, yet can not be removed.   It can't be removed because of
the linkage requirement that pointers to init section code (like, ideally,
probe support) must not live in other sections (like driver method tables)
after those pointers would be invalid.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:02 -08:00
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power
Kconfig [PATCH] move SYS_HYPERVISOR inside the Generic Driver menu 2006-10-28 11:30:55 -07:00
Makefile
attribute_container.c
base.h
bus.c CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - bus symlinks 2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
class.c CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - class symlinks 2006-12-01 14:51:59 -08:00
core.c driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move() 2006-12-01 14:52:02 -08:00
cpu.c
dd.c Driver core: fix "driver" symlink timing 2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
dmapool.c driver core fixes: device_create_file() retval check in dmapool.c 2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
driver.c
firmware.c
firmware_class.c Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device 2006-12-01 14:52:00 -08:00
hypervisor.c
init.c
isa.c
map.c
memory.c
node.c
platform.c Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace 2006-12-01 14:52:02 -08:00
sys.c
topology.c cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value 2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
transport_class.c