On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 06:30:37AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 09:19 Thu 31 Oct , Bo Shen wrote: > > 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/ > > so the fix can be drop in favor of the conversion
This patch (2/2) has been dropped, but the dependency issue still has to be addressed (by adding deferred-probing support). The atmel-pwm-bl driver has not been removed yet and the fix is also needed in stable. Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
