On 08/24/2015 02:40 AM, kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Martin Sperl <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The bcm2835 SOC contains 3 auxiliar devices (spi1, spi2 and uart1)
> that all are enabled via a shared register.
>
> To serialize access to this shared register this soc-driver
> is created that implements:
> bcm2835aux_enable(struct device *dev, const char *property);
> bcm2835aux_disable(struct device *dev, const char *property);
>
> Which will read the property from the device tree of the device
> and enable/disable that specific device as per device tree.
>
> First use of this api will be spi-bcm2835aux.
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/bcm/bcm2835-aux.c b/drivers/soc/bcm/bcm2835-aux.c
> +static void *bcm2835aux_find_base(struct device *dev, const char *property)
> +{
> + struct device *found = NULL;
> + struct device_node *np;
> +
> + /* get the phandle of the device */
> + np = of_parse_phandle(dev->of_node, property, 0);
> + if (!np) {
> + dev_err(dev, "missing property %s\n", property);
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> + }
> +
> + /* now find the device it points to */
> + found = driver_find_device(&bcm2835aux_driver.driver, NULL,
> + np, bcm2835aux_dev_match);
> + if (!found) {
> + dev_err(dev, "device for phandle of %s not found\n",
> + property);
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
That should return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER) so that client drivers know
when to defer their own probe, and not print an error. This is an
expected condition during probing. I could have sworn this was correct
in a previous patch revision.
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