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authorLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2012-04-10 10:00:38 +0200
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2012-04-18 13:53:11 +0200
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pinctrl: implement pinctrl deferred probing
If drivers try to obtain pinctrl handles for a pin controller that has not yet registered to the subsystem, we need to be able to back out and retry with deferred probing. So let's return -EPROBE_DEFER whenever this location fails. Also downgrade the errors to info, maybe we will even set them to debug once the deferred probing is commonplace. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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@@ -1043,6 +1043,11 @@ quickly poking some registers.
The pins are allocated for your device when you issue the pinctrl_get() call,
after this you should be able to see this in the debugfs listing of all pins.
+NOTE: the pinctrl system will return -EPROBE_DEFER if it cannot find the
+requested pinctrl handles, for example if the pinctrl driver has not yet
+registered. Thus make sure that the error path in your driver gracefully
+cleans up and is ready to retry the probing later in the startup process.
+
System pin control hogging
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