From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:14:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] pwm_backlight: Add deferred probe support Message-Id: <20120618021453.GD17850@verge.net.au> List-Id: References: <1339773427-29508-5-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> In-Reply-To: <1339773427-29508-5-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 05:17:05PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > If the PWM instance is not available yet at probe time, request a > deferred probe. > > A better way to fix might be to create a PWM subsystem (possible > integrated into the GPIO subsystem) to support generic PWM objects, and > make sure the subsystem gets initialized first. > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Simon Horman