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| author | Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> | 2009-01-15 13:50:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-15 16:39:35 -0800 |
| commit | a342d215c206d955fea55d778e3803b29ee41b60 (patch) | |
| tree | 36e831878b6ed7e004d5f4e6c667b4053c756f83 /drivers/gpio/max7301.c | |
| parent | 5b96f1729064453e09805a387378e0644da1c937 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpio/max7301.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpio/max7301.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/max7301.c b/drivers/gpio/max7301.c index 8b24d784db93..3e7f4e06386e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/max7301.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/max7301.c @@ -217,8 +217,10 @@ static int __devinit max7301_probe(struct spi_device *spi) int i, ret; pdata = spi->dev.platform_data; - if (!pdata || !pdata->base) - return -ENODEV; + if (!pdata || !pdata->base) { + dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "incorrect or missing platform data\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } /* * bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data |