On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Mark Brown <broo...@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
> Since users must be explicitly provided with a GPIO number in order to > request one the overwhelmingly common case for failing to request will > be that the required GPIO driver has not yet registered and we should > therefore defer until it has registered. > > In order to avoid having to code this logic in individual drivers have > gpio_request() return -EPROBE_DEFER when failing to look up the GPIO. > Drivers which don't want this behaviour can override it if they desire. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broo...@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Following Greg's application of the required prerequisite patch I have merged this patch. Grant, shout if you feel bad about it, ACK if you like it :-) Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/