From: Mark Brown Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 11:22:56 +0000 (+0100) Subject: gpiolib: Defer failed gpio requests by default X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9354576;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij --- 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);