linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: implement pinctrl deferred probing

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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:43:31 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>,
	Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@...aro.org>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rajendra.nayak@...aro.org>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...vell.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: implement pinctrl deferred probing

On 04/11/2012 02:34 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> 
> 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.

Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
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