This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled misc: atmel_pwm: add deferred-probing support to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: misc-atmel_pwm-add-deferred-probing-support.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5c6d6fd1564138ad048564e48639f842714a90c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:32:39 +0200 Subject: misc: atmel_pwm: add deferred-probing support From: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5c6d6fd1564138ad048564e48639f842714a90c6 upstream. 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 <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c +++ b/drivers/misc/atmel_pwm.c @@ -90,8 +90,10 @@ int pwm_channel_alloc(int index, struct 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) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jhovold@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/backlight-atmel-pwm-bl-fix-deferred-probe-from-__init.patch queue-3.11/misc-atmel_pwm-add-deferred-probing-support.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html