On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 04:52:33PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The remove function of a device driver should not be marked
> __exit, because that section gets discarded for built-in drivers,
> and it is still possible to manually unbind a driver from a
> device, which would result in a runtime error.
>
> The kernel also produces a link error for this when the module
> is built-in:
>
> `ramoops_remove' referenced in section `.data' of fs/built-in.o: defined in
> discarded section `.exit.text' of fs/built-in.o
I can't see why it wasn't reported as an error on my machine.
But I think you are right. __exit should't be there.
Acked-by: Geliang Tang <geliangt...@163.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Fixes: 2adb611ef932 ("pstore: add pstore unregister")
>
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index 68889a727bc7..319c3a60cfa5 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ fail_out:
> return err;
> }
>
> -static int __exit ramoops_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int ramoops_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct ramoops_context *cxt = &oops_cxt;
>
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