GPIO: Fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes

From: Ben Dooks
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 10:24:45 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@xxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max7301.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/max7301.c 2008-12-12 13:35:42.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max7301.c 2008-12-12 13:36:12.000000000 +0000
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ static int __devinit max7301_probe(struc

pdata = spi->dev.platform_data;
if (!pdata || !pdata->base)
- return -ENODEV;
+ return -EINVAL;

/*
* bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max732x.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/max732x.c 2008-12-12 13:36:22.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/max732x.c 2008-12-12 13:36:28.000000000 +0000
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int __devinit max732x_probe(struc

pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
if (pdata == NULL)
- return -ENODEV;
+ return -EINVAL;

chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct max732x_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
if (chip == NULL)
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c 2008-12-12 14:10:01.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c 2008-12-12 14:11:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int mcp23s08_probe(struct spi_dev

pdata = spi->dev.platform_data;
if (!pdata || !gpio_is_valid(pdata->base))
- return -ENODEV;
+ return -EINVAL;

for (addr = 0; addr < 4; addr++) {
if (!pdata->chip[addr].is_present)
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c 2008-12-12 13:33:47.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pca953x.c 2008-12-12 13:33:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static int __devinit pca953x_probe(struc

pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
if (pdata == NULL)
- return -ENODEV;
+ return -EINVAL;

chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pca953x_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
if (chip == NULL)
Index: linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c
===================================================================
--- linux.git7.orig/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c 2008-12-12 13:34:33.000000000 +0000
+++ linux.git7/drivers/gpio/pcf857x.c 2008-12-12 13:34:54.000000000 +0000
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_clie

pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
if (!pdata)
- return -ENODEV;
+ return -EINVAL;

/* Allocate, initialize, and register this gpio_chip. */
gpio = kzalloc(sizeof *gpio, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_clie
status = i2c_read_le16(client);

} else
- status = -ENODEV;
+ status = -EINVAL;

if (status < 0)
goto fail;

--
Ben (ben@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.fluff.org/)

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