[PATCH 1/9] spi/pxa2xx: register driver properly

[David Brownell]

> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 12:11 AM
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:47:29PM
> +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > use platform_driver_register instead of
> platform_driver_probe. The
> > latter only checks available devices at the time of
> calling. So if a
> > device gets inserter at a later point in time then the
> driver will never
> > play with it.


I detect an effort to change the classic model for board initialization in Linux:  first set up
and register all system/platform devices on each
board then do the same for their drivers.  ("hardware first" ... "software second".

(Without such a change, there's no need for
 patches like this (of which I've recently
seen a few).

I've not seen discussion about the desirability
of such a change.

- Dave


Has this change