Re: [PATCH 14/17] ASoC: rt5645: fix error handling for gpio detection

[Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>]

On 01/31/2017 02:00 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:09:42PM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>> Optional gpio handling should not cause an error status
>> and prevent probing.
>> Remove error return and move error message to dev_info
>> @@ -3660,8 +3660,7 @@ static int rt5645_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c,
>>   						       GPIOD_IN);
>>   
>>   	if (IS_ERR(rt5645->gpiod_hp_det)) {
>> -		dev_err(&i2c->dev, "failed to initialize gpiod\n");
>> -		return PTR_ERR(rt5645->gpiod_hp_det);
>> +		dev_info(&i2c->dev, "failed to initialize gpiod\n");
>>   	}
> I'd expect this to depend on what the error is - the normal pattern is
> to check for whatever the error code for "this doesn't exist" is and
> ignore that while treating other things (especially -EPROBE_DEFER but
> also other things) as errors.
yes, I'll apply the same filter on -ENOENT as for the test for the 
mclock last month. I should have thought about it, thanks for pointing 
this out.