Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] serial: mctrl_gpio: Avoid probe failures in case of missing gpiolib

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Fri Aug 02 2019 - 08:09:02 EST


On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:04:09AM +0000, Schrempf Frieder wrote:
> From: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If CONFIG_GPIOLIB is not enabled, mctrl_gpio_init() and
> mctrl_gpio_init_noauto() will currently return an error pointer with
> -ENOSYS. As the mctrl GPIOs are usually optional, drivers need to
> check for this condition to allow continue probing.
>
> To avoid the need for this check in each driver, we return NULL
> instead, as all the mctrl_gpio_*() functions are skipped anyway.
> We also adapt mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod() to be in line with this change.
>
> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
Uwe

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