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From: manjugk@ti.com (G, Manjunath Kondaiah)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] gpiolib: handle deferral probe error
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:44:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111012061432.GA2080@manju-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACxGe6tmjQGw77NMNYLWJHMAtmF9fk_9HnHtbrMhzkKEC1HG=Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:09:38PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:33:09 +0500
> > "G, Manjunath Kondaiah" <manjugk@ti.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The gpio library should return -EPROBE_DEFER in gpio_request
> >> if gpio driver is not ready.
> >
> > Why not use the perfectly good existing error codes we have for this ?
> >
> > We have EAGAIN and EUNATCH both of which look sensible.
> 
> I want a distinct error code for probe deferral so that a) it doesn't
> overlap with something a driver is already doing, and b) so that all
> the users can be found again at a later date.
> 
> That said, I'm not in agreement with this patch.  It is fine for gpio
> lib to have a code that means the pin doesn't exist (yet), but the
> device driver needs to be the one to decide whether or not it is
> appropriate to use probe deferral.

During gpio_request, driver gpio_request is not available. How can we expect
driver to request deferred probe in this case?

-M

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1317963790-29426-1-git-send-email-manjugk@ti.com>
     [not found] ` <1317963790-29426-2-git-send-email-manjugk@ti.com>
2011-10-07  6:43   ` [PATCH 1/5] drivercore: add new error value for deferred probe Greg KH
2011-10-07 10:00     ` Mark Brown
2011-10-07 22:12     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 23:28       ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2011-10-08  0:12         ` Greg KH
2011-10-09 22:59           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-10  1:06             ` Greg KH
2011-10-12  6:18               ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-13  4:10                 ` Grant Likely
     [not found] ` <1317963790-29426-3-git-send-email-manjugk@ti.com>
2011-10-07  6:49   ` [PATCH 2/5] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism Greg KH
2011-10-07 20:57     ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-07 21:23       ` Greg KH
2011-10-08  4:03         ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-08 15:55           ` Greg KH
2011-10-08 18:18             ` Josh Triplett
2011-10-10 17:37             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-10-11 12:29               ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13  4:09                 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 14:18                   ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 14:31                     ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 15:21                       ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 16:04                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14  0:13                           ` Ming Lei
2011-10-13 17:15                       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 18:16                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-13 18:28                           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 15:39                             ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 16:17                               ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 16:33                                 ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 17:20                                   ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 17:33                                     ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 18:25                                       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 18:39                                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-14 19:07                                           ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 18:56                                     ` David Daney
2011-10-14 19:03                                       ` Grant Likely
2011-10-14 19:09                                         ` David Daney
2011-10-14 15:37                         ` Alan Stern
2011-10-12  7:04               ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07 21:28     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07  6:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] Driver Probe Deferral Mechanism Greg KH
2011-10-07  7:37   ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
     [not found] ` <1317963790-29426-5-git-send-email-manjugk@ti.com>
2011-10-07 10:06   ` [PATCH 4/5] gpiolib: handle deferral probe error Alan Cox
2011-10-07 22:09     ` Grant Likely
2011-10-12  6:14       ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah [this message]
2011-10-13  4:12         ` Grant Likely

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