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authorBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>2009-01-16 00:50:45 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-16 03:39:35 +0300
commita342d215c206d955fea55d778e3803b29ee41b60 (patch)
tree36e831878b6ed7e004d5f4e6c667b4053c756f83 /drivers/video
parent5b96f1729064453e09805a387378e0644da1c937 (diff)
downloadlinux-a342d215c206d955fea55d778e3803b29ee41b60.tar.xz
gpio: fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes
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. Also add a set of dev_dbg() statements to the error paths to provide an better explanation of the error as there may be more that one point in the driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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