Re: [PATCH] gpio: revert get() to non-errorprogating behaviour

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu 17 Dec 01:21 PST 2015, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> commit e20538b82f1ffcc06e68feb117f24f211cff7a4d
>> "gpio: Propagate errors from chip->get()"
>> started to propagate errors from the .get() functions since
>> we can get errors from the infrastructure of e.g. slowbus
>> GPIO expanders.
>>
>> However it turns out a bunch of drivers relied on the core
>> to clamp the value, so we need to revert to the old behaviour
>> and go over all drivers and fix them to conform to the
>> expectations of the core before we go back to propagating
>> the error code.
>>
>
> Okay, lets fix the drivers and then revert this revert.

Yups, I'll send out a serious patch series later today
fixing all affected drivers and then reverting the revert.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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