Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: initialise nsp-mux earlier.

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Sat Jul 11 2020 - 17:07:47 EST


On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:44 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/30/2020 9:37 PM, Mark Tomlinson wrote:

> > That was one of my thoughts too. I found someone had tried that
> > earlier, but it was rejected:
> >
> >
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-gpio/patch/1516566774-1786-1-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> clk or reset APIs do not complain loudly on EPROBE_DEFER, it seems to me
> that GPIO should follow here. Also, it does look like Linus was in
> agreement in the end, not sure why it was not applied though.

I never got an updated patch. My last message was:

>> so you mean something like this?
>>
>> if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>> dev_info(dev, "deferring probe\n")
>> else
>> dev_err(dev, "... failed to register\n")
>
> Yes exactly.

Patches welcome :D

Yours,
Linus Walleij