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

[Nori, Sekhar]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 20:28:41, Chemparathy, Cyril wrote:
> 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().

Hmm, okay. Please include a check for machine in that case.

Thanks,
Sekhar

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