Hi Linus,

> > From: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
> >
> > These functions are supposed to return an error pointer, not NULL.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
> 
> Worried that some driver may depend on this behaviour, but
> patch applied anyway, let's deal with it.

I sent a similar patch to Russell for the clk API and he rightfully
NAKed it. NULL is a valid cookie from clk_get and the whole clk API is
able to deal with NULL. That ensures that for !HAVE_CLK, clk_get is
still successful and won't fail driver_probe while the other clk API
functions don't really do anything. If the gpio API is similar to that,
we should revert my patch.

Sorry for the nuisance,

   Wolfram

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