Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754763Ab3JaOBr (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:01:47 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com ([209.85.217.181]:57525 "EHLO mail-lb0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753871Ab3JaOBp (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:01:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:01:40 +0100 From: Johan Hovold To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Johan Hovold , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Ferre , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: atmel_pwm: set initcall level to subsys Message-ID: <20131031140140.GG29813@localhost> References: <1382459560-26596-1-git-send-email-jhovold@gmail.com> <20131029232249.GA20476@kroah.com> <20131030110705.GA29813@localhost> <201310302146.18248.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201310302146.18248.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 28 On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:46:17PM +0100, 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? It does not suffer from the problem with failed probe as it supports deferred probing, but there could be added delays depending on probe order. > 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. As Bo mentioned, it's work in progress that hasn't been merged yet. Johan -- 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/