From a342d215c206d955fea55d778e3803b29ee41b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:50:45 -0800 Subject: gpio: fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes A number of drivers in drivers/gpio return -ENODEV when confronted with missing setup parameters such as the platform data. However, returning -ENODEV causes the driver layer to silently ignore the driver as it assumes the probe did not find anything and was only speculative. To make life easier to discern why a driver is not being attached, change to returning -EINVAL, which is a better description of the fact that the driver data was not valid. Also add a set of dev_dbg() statements to the error paths to provide an better explanation of the error as there may be more that one point in the driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- drivers/gpio/max7301.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/gpio/max7301.c') diff --git a/drivers/gpio/max7301.c b/drivers/gpio/max7301.c index 8b24d784db93..3e7f4e06386e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/max7301.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/max7301.c @@ -217,8 +217,10 @@ static int __devinit max7301_probe(struct spi_device *spi) int i, ret; pdata = spi->dev.platform_data; - if (!pdata || !pdata->base) - return -ENODEV; + if (!pdata || !pdata->base) { + dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "incorrect or missing platform data\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } /* * bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data -- cgit v1.2.3