Panel unable to use atmel,hlcdc-pwm for backlight

[Boris Brezillon]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 21:35:43 +0200
Peter Rosin <peda at axentia.se> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to attach a simpel-panel to an atmel,sama5d3-hlcdc
> controller. See below for the parts of my .dts that I find
> relevant.
> 
> When I boot with this, I run into a problem. What I think
> happens is that the hlcdc probe fails because the panel
> probe fails because the backlight probe fails because the
> pwm probe fails because the hlcdc probe hasn't completed
> yet. I.e. a circular dependency.

No, it's not a circular dependency issue (the atmel-hlcdc-pwm depends
on the atmel-hlcdc-mfd driver, not the atmel-hlcdc-drm driver).

Are you sure you enabled CONFIG_PWM_ATMEL_HLCDC?