Re: [PATCH] leds: leds-gpio: Pass on error codes unmodified

[Bryan Wu]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:59 AM, SÃren Brinkmann
<soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> + Andreas who actually reported this issue and also tested the patch.
>
> On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 07:15PM -0800, Soren Brinkmann wrote:
>> Instead of overriding error codes, pass them on unmodified. This
>> way a EPROBE_DEFER is correctly passed to the driver core. This results
>> in the LED driver correctly requesting probe deferral in cases the GPIO
>> controller is not yet available.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Here should be a:
> Reported-and-tested-by: Andreas FÃrber <afaerber@xxxxxxx>
>

Good catch. I merged it to my tree.

Thanks,
-Bryan

>> ---
>> Adding pinctrl on Zynq shuffled with probing order quite a bit and a lot
>> of deferred probing is going on. With those changes I saw the LEDs
>> failing to probe due to the GPIO controller deferring probe until the
>> pincontroller is available. With this patch things work again:
>>
>> dmesg | grep -i led:
>>   of_get_named_gpiod_flags: parsed 'gpios' property of node '/leds/ds23[0]' - status (-517)
>>   platform leds: Driver leds-gpio requests probe deferral
>>   of_get_named_gpiod_flags: parsed 'gpios' property of node '/leds/ds23[0]' - status (0)
>>
>>       Soren
>> ---
>>  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
>> index 7ea1ea42c2d2..d26af0a79a90 100644
>> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
>> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
>> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ static struct gpio_leds_priv *gpio_leds_create(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>               led.gpiod = devm_get_gpiod_from_child(dev, child);
>>               if (IS_ERR(led.gpiod)) {
>>                       fwnode_handle_put(child);
>> +                     ret = PTR_ERR(led.gpiod);
>>                       goto err;
>>               }
>>
>> @@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ static struct gpio_leds_priv *gpio_leds_create(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>  err:
>>       for (count = priv->num_leds - 2; count >= 0; count--)
>>               delete_gpio_led(&priv->leds[count]);
>> -     return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>> +     return ERR_PTR(ret);
>>  }
>>
>>  static const struct of_device_id of_gpio_leds_match[] = {
>> --
>> 2.2.2.1.g63c5777
>>
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