On 16/06/12 16:26, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 04:14:59PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote: >> If the GPIOs used by the MMCI driver are not registered yet when the >> driver is probe()d, they can't be used. This happens if the mmci driver >> is probed before the respective GPIO controller (e.g. on the LPC32xx >> EA3250 board, the PCA9532 GPIO controller would be initialized via DT >> after mmci). Therefore, we defer mmci in this case. > > This code is wrong. There are platforms where plat->gpio_cd is negative > (because there isn't an associated GPIO) and we still expect the driver > to successfully bind. In that case, the driver gets the CD and WP > information via the status callback. > > So this is an incompatible change with existing (and required) driver > behaviour.
As someone just told me, in the case of no GPIO, we would have gpio_cd == -ENODEV. Would it be sufficient to check for -ENODEV (in which case we would do without GPIO), and otherwise return -EPROBE_DEFER? Or is it necessary to flag DT-bound GPIOs somehow additionally to handle this new case? Thanks in advance, Roland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
