Re: [PATCH 2/2] ASoC: tegra: probe deferral error reporting

[Marcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>]

On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 14:17 +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 July 2018 12:56:15 MSK Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 12:31:07PM +0000, Marcel Ziswiler wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2018-07-20 at 13:16 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > >  	ac97->sync_gpio = of_get_named_gpio(pdev-
> > > > > >dev.of_node,
> > > > >  	
> > > > >  					    "nvidia,codec-
> > > > > sync-
> > > > > 
> > > > > gpio", 0);
> > > > > 
> > > > >  	if (!gpio_is_valid(ac97->sync_gpio)) {
> > > > > 
> > > > > -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no codec-sync GPIO
> > > > > supplied\n");
> > > > > +		ret = ac97->sync_gpio;
> > > > > +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no codec-sync GPIO
> > > > > supplied:
> > > > > %d\n", ret);
> > > > > 
> > > > >  		goto err_clk_put;
> > > > >  	
> > > > >  	}
> > > > 
> > > > This isn't reporting an error code associated with the attempt
> > > > to
> > > > find a
> > > > codec-sync GPIO, it's the result of some other operation.
> > > 
> > > What exactly is then the of_get_named_gpio() above please doing
> > > if
> > > not getting the codec sync GPIO? I am not following you, sorry.
> > 
> > It's not in any way involved in setting the value of ret, whatever
> > value
> > that has it's nothing to do with that operation.
> 
> The comment to gpio_is_valid() says that it "Returns GPIO number to
> use with 
> Linux generic GPIO API, or one of the errno value on the error
> condition". 
> Comment doesn't explicitly states that the returned GPIO number is
> always 
> valid, but it is kinda implied.

Do you mean I should be assigning the return value of gpio_is_valid()
to ret and use that instead?