Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752054Ab3JaBUa (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:20:30 -0400 Received: from eusmtp01.atmel.com ([212.144.249.242]:43255 "EHLO eusmtp01.atmel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750799Ab3JaBU2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:20:28 -0400 Message-ID: <5271B012.4060200@atmel.com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:19:14 +0800 From: Bo Shen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann , Johan Hovold CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nicolas Ferre , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: atmel_pwm: set initcall level to subsys References: <1382459560-26596-1-git-send-email-jhovold@gmail.com> <20131029232249.GA20476@kroah.com> <20131030110705.GA29813@localhost> <201310302146.18248.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201310302146.18248.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.168.5.13] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 33 Hi Arnd, On 10/31/2013 04:46, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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. The atmel pwm driver is on the way to generic subsystem. more information at: --->8--- PWM: atmel-pwm: add PWM controller driver: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2963081/ ---<8--- Best Regards, Bo Shen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/