From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] pwm_backlight: Add deferred probe support
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:52:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920015231.GB6873@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343140823-13754-5-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:27:55PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Saturday 25 August 2012 15:57:12 Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 04:40:21PM +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 (possibly
> > > integrated into the GPIO subsystem) to support generic PWM objects, and
> > > make sure the subsystem gets initialized first.
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I am wondering if you have had a chance to review this change.
> > I believe that it is a pre-requisite for work that Laurent has
> > done to enable the backlight on the Armadillo 800 EVA board.
>
> The PWM core now returns -EPROBE_DEFER if pwm_get() or pwm_request() can't
> find the requested device, so this patch isn't needed anymore.
Thanks, case closed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-24 14:40 [PATCH v2 4/6] pwm_backlight: Add deferred probe support Laurent Pinchart
2012-08-25 6:57 ` Simon Horman
2012-09-19 18:27 ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-09-20 1:52 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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