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Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:11:03 -0500
From:	Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@...omium.org>
To:	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olofj@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: tps6586x: Invert GPIO and subdevices initialization

Hi Samuel,

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 18:37, Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
[...]
>> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/tps6586x.c b/drivers/mfd/tps6586x.c
>> index 627cf57..fdb16ed 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mfd/tps6586x.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mfd/tps6586x.c
>> @@ -517,19 +517,25 @@ static int __devinit tps6586x_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
>>               }
>>       }
>>
>> +     tps6586x_gpio_init(tps6586x, pdata->gpio_base);
>> +
> Wouldn't it make sense to have tps6586x_gpio_init() return an int and check it
> before adding the subdevs then ?

Yes, probably. I will do a v2 which checks the result of the GPIO registration.
By the way, when "gpio_base" is not set, I will consider that the
developer doesn't want the TPS gpio support and gracefully continue
without the GPIO registration in order to keep the current behaviour.

Regards,
-- 
Vincent
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