On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 01:58:05PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 14 March 2013, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > > This patch converts the drivers to use the > > module_platform_driver_probe() macro which makes the code smaller and > > a bit simpler. > > > > Signed-off-by: Fabio Porcedda <fabio.porcedda@xxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c | 12 +----------- > > drivers/misc/ep93xx_pwm.c | 13 +------------ > > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) > > The patch itself seems fine, but there are two issues around it: > > * The PWM drivers should really get moved to drivers/pwm and converted to the new > PWM subsystem. I don't know if Hartley or Hans-Christian have plans to do > that already. > > * Regarding the use of module_platform_driver_probe, I'm a little worried about > the interactions with deferred probing. I don't think there are any regressions, > but we should probably make people aware that one cannot return -EPROBE_DEFER > from a platform_driver_probe function. I'm worried about this aswell. I think platform_driver_probe shouldn't be used anymore. Even if a driver does not explicitly make use of -EPROBE_DEFER, it leaks in very quickly if a driver for example uses a regulator and just returns the error value from regulator_get. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
