watchdog: at91sam9: Stop using module_platform_driver_probe()
authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Mon, 6 Nov 2023 15:48:09 +0000 (16:48 +0100)
committerWim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Sun, 17 Dec 2023 15:14:18 +0000 (16:14 +0100)
commit86aa2919f1ae4ee7f90260d028f7572263d1c715
treec374832032ea5a1251ab2bc802c462d6260c4005
parentdc805ea058c0e6b319ee95e61a5b4b61b0e8fe54
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>
drivers/watchdog/at91sam9_wdt.c