lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Feb]   [18]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] w1-gpio: handle of_get_gpio() returning -EPROBE_DEFER better
Date
Hi

18.02.2014, 12:24, "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>:

> The thing is that the w1-gpio device might be probed before the gpio's
> controller is available. In this case of_get_gpio returns -EPROBE_DEFER
> and this makes the device core retry probing the w1-gpio device later
> again. So this is not a dt-parsing problem but just dependency stuff.
>
> The 2nd issue addressed didn't happen to me, but it might occur that the
> first of_get_gpio for the data pin succeeds, but the getting the pullup
> gpio fails with -EPROBE_DEFER (e.g. because it sits on a different
> controller). In this case you still want to retry probing later instead
> of ignoring the problem.
>
> Does that make it clearer?

Well, yes, thank you :)

Greg, please pull this patch into your tree.

Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-02-19 00:41    [W:0.393 / U:0.168 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site