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>
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@@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
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int status;
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pdata = client->dev.platform_data;
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if (!pdata)
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return -ENODEV;
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if (!pdata) {
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dev_dbg(&client->dev, "no platform data\n");
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return -EINVAL;
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}
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/* Allocate, initialize, and register this gpio_chip. */
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gpio = kzalloc(sizeof *gpio, GFP_KERNEL);
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@@ -248,8 +250,10 @@ static int pcf857x_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
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else
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status = i2c_read_le16(client);
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} else
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status = -ENODEV;
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} else {
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dev_dbg(&client->dev, "unsupported number of gpios\n");
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status = -EINVAL;
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}
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if (status < 0)
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goto fail;
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