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From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
	dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Subject: GPIO: Fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:24:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081212152426.745254309@fluff.org.uk> (raw)

[-- Attachment #1: simtec/check-gpio-driver-return-codes.patch --]
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A number of drivers in drivers/gpio return -ENODEV when confronted
with missing setup parameters such as the platform data. However,
returning -ENODEV causes the driver layer to silently ignore the
driver as it assumes the probe did not find anything and was only
speculative.

To make life easier to discern why a driver is not being attached,
change to returning -EINVAL, which is a better description of the
fact that the driver data was not valid.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max7301.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/max7301.c	2008-12-12 13:35:42.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max7301.c	2008-12-12 13:36:12.000000000 +0000
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static int __devinit max7301_probe(struc
 
 	pdata = spi->dev.platform_data;
 	if (!pdata || !pdata->base)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/*
 	 * bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max732x.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/max732x.c	2008-12-12 13:36:22.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max732x.c	2008-12-12 13:36:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int __devinit max732x_probe(struc
 
 	pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
 	if (pdata == NULL)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct max732x_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (chip == NULL)
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c	2008-12-12 14:10:01.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c	2008-12-12 14:11:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int mcp23s08_probe(struct spi_dev
 
 	pdata = spi->dev.platform_data;
 	if (!pdata || !gpio_is_valid(pdata->base))
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	for (addr = 0; addr < 4; addr++) {
 		if (!pdata->chip[addr].is_present)
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c	2008-12-12 13:33:47.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c	2008-12-12 13:33:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static int __devinit pca953x_probe(struc
 
 	pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
 	if (pdata == NULL)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pca953x_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (chip == NULL)
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c	2008-12-12 13:34:33.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c	2008-12-12 13:34:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_clie
 
 	pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
 	if (!pdata)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* Allocate, initialize, and register this gpio_chip. */
 	gpio = kzalloc(sizeof *gpio, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_clie
 			status = i2c_read_le16(client);
 
 	} else
-		status = -ENODEV;
+		status = -EINVAL;
 
 	if (status < 0)
 		goto fail;

-- 
Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)

  'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'

             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12 15:24 Ben Dooks [this message]
2008-12-14 21:33 ` GPIO: Fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes Ben Dooks
2008-12-15  0:11   ` David Brownell
2008-12-15  7:46     ` Jean Delvare
2008-12-15 10:16       ` Ben Dooks
2008-12-15 10:22         ` Jean Delvare
2008-12-18 18:16           ` David Brownell
2008-12-18 22:29             ` Ben Dooks
2008-12-15 10:15     ` Ben Dooks
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-07 12:56 ben
2009-01-08 12:20 ` Ben Dooks
2009-01-07 13:03 Ben Dooks

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