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From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] misc: atmel_pwm: set initcall level to subsys
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:46:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310302146.18248.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131030110705.GA29813@localhost>

On Wednesday 30 October 2013, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > I really hate this type of patch, as it's papering over the real
> > problem.  What happens when someone else moves their driver to this
> > level?  Then you are back to the original problem.
> 
> Yes, it's crude, but it's currently the only way to express a preferred
> probe order.

Does the same problem occur with the generic PWM subsystem?

The atmel_pwm driver apparently is the last PWM driver that has
not been converted to the generic subsystem yet. Doing that would
also let us drop the atmel-pwm-bl driver in favor of the generic
backlight.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-30 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22 16:32 [PATCH 0/2] misc: atmel_pwm: fix probe dependencies Johan Hovold
2013-10-22 16:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] misc: atmel_pwm: add deferred-probing support Johan Hovold
2013-10-30 11:25   ` Johan Hovold
2013-10-30 13:24     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-22 16:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] misc: atmel_pwm: set initcall level to subsys Johan Hovold
2013-10-29 23:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-10-30 11:07     ` Johan Hovold
2013-10-30 20:46       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-10-31  1:19         ` Bo Shen
2013-10-31  5:30           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-31 14:07             ` Johan Hovold
2013-10-31 14:01         ` Johan Hovold

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