On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:56:19PM +0000, ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. sorry, sent from the wrong email address please ignore. -- Ben (ben@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
