[PATCH 2/2] misc: atmel_pwm: set initcall level to subsys

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Oct 30 16:46:17 EDT 2013


On Wednesday 30 October 2013, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > I really hate this type of patch, as it's papering over the real
> > problem.  What happens when someone else moves their driver to this
> > level?  Then you are back to the original problem.
> 
> Yes, it's crude, but it's currently the only way to express a preferred
> probe order.

Does the same problem occur with the generic PWM subsystem?

The atmel_pwm driver apparently is the last PWM driver that has
not been converted to the generic subsystem yet. Doing that would
also let us drop the atmel-pwm-bl driver in favor of the generic
backlight.

	Arnd



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