From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: atmel_pwm: set initcall level to subsys
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:46:17 +0100
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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
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