linux-kernel - [PATCH] thermal: make thermal_zone_of_sensor_register return -ENODEV if a sensor OF node is missing

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Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:39:52 +0300
From:   Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@...il.com>
To:     rui.zhang@...el.com
Cc:     Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@...il.com>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] thermal: make thermal_zone_of_sensor_register return -ENODEV if a sensor OF node is missing

When devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() is called from
hwmon_thermal_add_sensor() it is possible that the relevant sensor is
missing an OF node. In this case thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() returns
-EINVAL which causes hwmon_thermal_add_sensor() to fail as well. This patch
changes relevant return code of thermal_zone_of_sensor_register() to
-ENODEV, which is tolerated by hwmon_thermal_add_sensor().

Here is a particular case of such behaviour: the Marvell ethernet PHYs
driver registers hwmon device for the built-in temperature sensor (see
drivers/net/phy/marvell.c). Since the sensor doesn't have associated OF
node devm_hwmon_device_register() returns error which ultimately causes
failure of the PHY driver's probe function.

Signed-off-by: Peter Mamonov <pmamonov@...il.com>
---
 drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
index dc5093be553e..34b0cc173f4a 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(struct device *dev, int sensor_id, void *data,
 
 	if (!dev || !dev->of_node) {
 		of_node_put(np);
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 	}
 
 	sensor_np = of_node_get(dev->of_node);
-- 
2.20.1