[PATCH v7 11/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm backlight device

[Cyril Chemparathy]

On 12/09/2010 06:00 AM, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 14:25:49, Nori, Sekhar wrote:
> 
>> This call should simply return if machine is not tnetv107x EVM.
>>
>> I didn't follow the entire series but wondering why
>> platform device registration should be a late init call.
>> Typically the driver probe can be made a late init call
>> in case of init sequence dependencies.
> 
> I meant driver init, not probe.

This was done to handle driver dependencies, and is meant to be
temporary (until a real driver dependency framework comes in).

Please see [1] for a bit more of background on changing drivers to use
module_init().

Regards
- Cyril.

[1]
http://linux.davincidsp.com/pipermail/davinci-linux-open-source/2010-November/020987.html