On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:43:40PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

To make this work when everything is build as a module patch 12/12
adds the following to the PMIC-MFD-driver:

MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: clk-tps68470 tps68470-regulator");

This will make modprobe load the clk and regulator drivers
before it loads the main/MFD tps68470 driver.

I feel nervous about this being reliable with all userspaces - IIRC
there was an alternative implementation of the modules stuff in
userspace and someone could always be doing insmod.  OTOH without better
in kernel dependency management and/or more standards based firmware
interfaces I guess we're stuck with this.