Re: [PATCH v2] leds: core: use deferred probing if default trigger isn't available yet

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On 02/27/2017 12:12 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2017-02-24 07:41:48, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> When registering a LED device we have the option to set a default trigger.
>> Depending on load order of drivers this trigger may not be available yet.
>> (affected LED device in my case: a DT-configured GPIO LED)
>> So far if the default trigger can't be found this error is silently
>> ignored.
>>
>> Let's change this to return EPROBE_DEFER if the default trigger can't be
>> found. This gives the system the chance to probe the LED device later
>> once the trigger is available.
>>
>> In addition in led_trigger_set_default break out of the loop when trigger
>> has been found.
> 
> Hmm. Problem with this is that if the we configure non-existing
> trigger, or trigger not configured in current kernel, LED will
> disappear and user will have "fun" debugging why, right?

Right, so I propose to add suitable dev_err logging in
led_classdev_register() if led_trigger_set_default() returns
non-zero.

-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski



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