> > > > So the open question is how to fix this dependency challenge? > > > > 1) Drop the generic backlight driver and implement all pwm/backlight > > handling in the driver. > > 2) Re-introduce the MFD driver. > > 3) ? > > > > Any good ideas? > > component.c should be able to cope. The driver that matches for the > physical/platform device register the pwm thing, plus a component (for > the drm driver, you can start with initializing the drm_device > already, except for the panel). The panel registers the other > component. the component master then does the final step of > registering the overall drm_device. > > Should all work, only bit you might need is a bit of > drm_panel/component.c integration. Iirc there's been discussions about > that, but no idea where they are stuck. Sound reasonable, I will try to look into this. If anyone have pointers to the drm_panel/component.c integration discussions I expect this would be a good help. Sam _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel