Best practice device tree design for display subsystems/DRM

[Russell King]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:54:41PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > I will point out that relying on driver probing orders has already been
> > stated by driver model people to be unsafe.  This is why I will not
> > adopt such a solution for my driver; it is a bad design.
> 
> Just to clarify, what you're objecting to is effectively the
> following? Because it is not guaranteed in the future that the probe
> order will be the same as the platform_driver_register() calls?

Correct.  Consider what happens if the devices are registered after
the driver(s) have been registered, which may not be in the correct
order.

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Russell King