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authorMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>2012-07-09 12:22:56 +0100
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2012-07-17 21:00:20 +0200
commite93545763021988def06fbda28fe5da133589a96 (patch)
tree8dcadb5c002f4b53009afb38bec7d3c6cf92cbb2
parent6d9947101616b2681879c0f8f95415897470be44 (diff)
downloadlinux-e93545763021988def06fbda28fe5da133589a96.tar.gz
gpiolib: Defer failed gpio requests by default
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@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
index 120b2a0e3167..de0213c9d11c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
@@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@ int gpio_request(unsigned gpio, const char *label)
 {
 	struct gpio_desc	*desc;
 	struct gpio_chip	*chip;
-	int			status = -EINVAL;
+	int			status = -EPROBE_DEFER;
 	unsigned long		flags;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags);