Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Keep returning EPROBE_DEFER when we should

[Chen-Yu Tsai]

Hi Linus

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Commits c85823390215 ("gpio: of: Support SPI nonstandard GPIO properties")
>> and 6a537d48461d ("gpio: of: Support regulator nonstandard GPIO
>> properties") have introduced a regression in the way error codes from
>> of_get_named_gpiod_flags are handled.
>>
>> Previously, those errors codes were returned immediately, but the two
>> commits mentioned above are now overwriting the error pointer, meaning that
>> whatever value has been returned will be dropped in favor of whatever the
>> two new functions will return.
>>
>> This might not be a big deal except for EPROBE_DEFER, on which GPIOlib
>> customers will depend on, and that will now be returned as an hard error
>> which means that they will not probe anymore, instead of gently deferring
>> their probe.
>>
>> Since EPROBE_DEFER basically means that we have found a valid property but
>> there was no GPIO controller registered to handle it, fix this issues by
>> returning it as soon as we encounter it.
>>
>> Fixes: c85823390215 ("gpio: of: Support SPI nonstandard GPIO properties")
>> Fixes: 6a537d48461d ("gpio: of: Support regulator nonstandard GPIO properties")
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Whoops sorry for that, patch applied for fixes.

Would this patch be any better?

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-gpio/msg28160.html

Not sure if of_find_spi_gpio() and of_find_regulator_gpio() return
EPROBE_DEFER as well.

ChenYu