From c05127c4e2c6e7d9949347a76fd05c337bcd5e84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Walleij Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:00:38 +0200 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Mark Brown Acked-by: Stephen Warren Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij --- Documentation/pinctrl.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/pinctrl.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt index eb46b1c0b07a..4431c3e727ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt +++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt @@ -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 ========================== -- cgit