On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:40:11AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > +static int __init tps65910_gpio_init(void) > > +{ > > + return platform_driver_register(&tps65910_gpio_driver); > > +} > > +subsys_initcall(tps65910_gpio_init); > module_platform_driver() This seems a little premature when we've not got many (any?) drivers implementing -EPROBE_DEFER. If we got the change I posted to make gpio_request() return -EPROBE_DEFER if there was no GPIO registered that'd get most cases covered though, the drivers would hopefully pass the error through. I've not done this for regulators since the cpufreq drivers are still deviceless so couldn't cope.