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From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Fw: Initialisation sequencing.
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:03:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4227A5CE.4050008@f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503040407.11449.adaplas@hotpop.com>

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:

> Are you using the backlight architecture in drivers/video/backlight?
> Shouldn't the backlight driver pull the video driver first?  I think
> you can do that if you make the backlight driver depend on the video
> driver.


IOW make it a child of it?

I asumed that would work but I cant actually build a modular kernel for
some reason I havent had time to look into yet.

that said, does load order have *any* bearing on probe order ?

since both devices are platform devices, both drivers can be loaded and
dormant and brought up at any time by their devices becomming available
from (another) module...


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-04  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-03  6:38 Fw: Initialisation sequencing Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-03  9:18 ` Ian Molton
2005-03-03 20:07   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2005-03-04  0:03     ` Ian Molton [this message]
2005-03-04  0:45       ` Antonino A. Daplas
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2005-03-03  0:41 Andrew Morton

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