On 30 June 2016 04:47:25 BST, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:18:17AM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
>> iio_channel_get_all returns -ENODEV when it cannot find either
>phandles and
>> properties in the Device Tree or channels whose consumer_dev_name
>matches
>> iio_hwmon in iio_map_list. The iio_map_list is filled in by iio
>drivers
>> which might be probed after iio_hwmon.
>>
>> It is better to defer the probe of iio_hwmon if such error is
>returned by
>> iio_channel_get_all in order to let a chance to iio drivers to expose
>> channels in iio_map_list.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c | 5 ++++-
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
>> index b550ba5..c0da4d9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
>> @@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ static int iio_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device
>*pdev)
>> name = dev->of_node->name;
>>
>> channels = iio_channel_get_all(dev);
>> - if (IS_ERR(channels))
>> + if (IS_ERR(channels)) {
>> + if (PTR_ERR(channels) == -ENODEV)
>> + return -EPROBE_DEFER;
>
>The problem, as I see it, is with iio, which should return
>-EPROBE_DEFER
>in this situation.
Agreed. New fangled stuff this deferred probing :)
>
>We can not convert -ENODEV to -EPROBE_DEFER without risking that the
>channels are _really_ not there, which would result in endless
>"deferred"
>messages.
Hmm not entirely sure how we prevent that happening wherever it is done..
>
>Guenter
>
>> return PTR_ERR(channels);
>> + }
>>
>> st = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*st), GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (st == NULL) {
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