Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Defer failed gpio requests by default

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mark Brown
<broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since users must be explicitly provided with a GPIO number in order to
> request one the overwhelmingly common case for failing to request will
> be that the required GPIO driver has not yet registered and we should
> therefore defer until it has registered.
>
> In order to avoid having to code this logic in individual drivers have
> gpio_request() return -EPROBE_DEFER when failing to look up the GPIO.
> Drivers which don't want this behaviour can override it if they desire.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Following Greg's application of the required prerequisite patch
I have merged this patch.

Grant, shout if you feel bad about it, ACK if you like it :-)

Linus Walleij
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