On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 06:32:39PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Two drivers (atmel-pwm-bl and leds-atmel-pwm) currently depend on the
> atmel_pwm driver to have bound to any pwm-device before their devices
> are probed.
>
> Support deferred probing of such devices by making sure to return
> -EPROBE_DEFER from pwm_channel_alloc when no pwm-device has yet been
> bound.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhov...@gmail.com>
This patch, 5c6d6fd1 ("misc: atmel_pwm: add deferred-probing support"),
and 9d3fde86 ("backlight: atmel-pwm-bl: fix deferred probe from __init")
in linux-next should probably be considered for inclusion in stable.
Without them the atmel-pwm-bl driver may always fail to probe depending
on link order.
Thanks,
Johan
> ---
> drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c b/drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c
> index 494d050..a6dc56e 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c
> @@ -90,8 +90,10 @@ int pwm_channel_alloc(int index, struct pwm_channel *ch)
> unsigned long flags;
> int status = 0;
>
> - /* insist on PWM init, with this signal pinned out */
> - if (!pwm || !(pwm->mask & 1 << index))
> + if (!pwm)
> + return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +
> + if (!(pwm->mask & 1 << index))
> return -ENODEV;
>
> if (index < 0 || index >= PWM_NCHAN || !ch)
> --
> 1.8.4
>
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