From a342d215c206d955fea55d778e3803b29ee41b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Dooks Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:45 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c') diff --git a/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c b/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c index 4bc2070dd4a1..9525724be731 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c @@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_client *client, int status; pdata = client->dev.platform_data; - if (!pdata) - return -ENODEV; + if (!pdata) { + dev_dbg(&client->dev, "no platform data\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } /* Allocate, initialize, and register this gpio_chip. */ gpio = kzalloc(sizeof *gpio, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -248,8 +250,10 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_client *client, else status = i2c_read_le16(client); - } else - status = -ENODEV; + } else { + dev_dbg(&client->dev, "unsupported number of gpios\n"); + status = -EINVAL; + } if (status < 0) goto fail; -- cgit v1.2.3