From: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
To: "Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 11/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm backlight device
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:58:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D00EEA1.8070201@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB5930247CD84F4-/tLxBxkBPtCIQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
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
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: cyril@ti.com (Cyril Chemparathy)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 11/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm backlight device
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:58:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D00EEA1.8070201@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB5930247CD84F4@dbde02.ent.ti.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 14:51 [PATCH v7 00/12] tnetv107x ssp drivers Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1291733522-3626-1-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] misc: add driver for sequencer serial port Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1291733522-3626-2-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-11 0:13 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-11 0:13 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 02/12] davinci: add tnetv107x ssp platform device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] davinci: add ssp config for tnetv107x evm board Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] spi: add ti-ssp spi master driver Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1291733522-3626-5-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-31 6:26 ` Grant Likely
2010-12-31 6:26 ` Grant Likely
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] davinci: add spi devices on tnetv107x evm Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] regulator: add driver for tps6524x regulator Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1291733522-3626-7-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-07 15:22 ` Mark Brown
2010-12-07 15:22 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20101207152222.GD9689-HF5t3jzXg/6ND3a5+9QAFujbO/Zr0HzV@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-07 16:46 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 16:46 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm regulators Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] gpio: add ti-ssp gpio driver Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1291733522-3626-9-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-31 6:16 ` Grant Likely
2010-12-31 6:16 ` Grant Likely
2010-12-07 14:51 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm ti-ssp gpio device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:51 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:52 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] backlight: add support for tps6116x controller Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:52 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:52 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm backlight device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:52 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <1291733522-3626-12-git-send-email-cyril-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-09 8:55 ` Nori, Sekhar
2010-12-09 8:55 ` Nori, Sekhar
2010-12-09 11:00 ` Nori, Sekhar
[not found] ` <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB5930247CD84F4-/tLxBxkBPtCIQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-09 14:58 ` Cyril Chemparathy [this message]
2010-12-09 14:58 ` Cyril Chemparathy
[not found] ` <4D00EEA1.8070201-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-10 16:01 ` Nori, Sekhar
2010-12-10 16:01 ` Nori, Sekhar
[not found] ` <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB5930247CD8CE8-/tLxBxkBPtCIQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-10 16:56 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-12-10 16:56 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <B85A65D85D7EB246BE421B3FB0FBB5930247CD83E1-/tLxBxkBPtCIQmiDNMet8wC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-09 11:00 ` Nori, Sekhar
2010-12-07 14:52 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm i2c eeprom device Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-07 14:52 ` Cyril Chemparathy
2010-12-11 0:19 ` [PATCH v7 00/12] tnetv107x ssp drivers Kevin Hilman
2010-12-11 0:19 ` Kevin Hilman
[not found] ` <87r5dp6tzv.fsf-1D3HCaltpLuhEniVeURVKkEOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-11 12:42 ` Mark Brown
2010-12-11 12:42 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <20101211124242.GE9380-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-30 21:05 ` Grant Likely
2010-12-30 21:05 ` Grant Likely
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