The patch titled drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-leds-leds-gpioc-use-gpio_get_value_cansleep-when-initializing.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> I get the following warning: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:1559 __gpio_get_value+0x90/0x98() Modules linked in: Call Trace: [<ffffffff81440950>] dump_stack+0x8/0x34 [<ffffffff81141478>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xa0 [<ffffffff812f0958>] __gpio_get_value+0x90/0x98 [<ffffffff81434f04>] create_gpio_led+0xdc/0x194 [<ffffffff8143524c>] gpio_led_probe+0x290/0x36c [<ffffffff8130e8b0>] driver_probe_device+0x78/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8130eaa8>] __driver_attach+0xc0/0xc8 [<ffffffff8130d7ac>] bus_for_each_dev+0x64/0xb0 [<ffffffff8130e130>] bus_add_driver+0x1c8/0x2a8 [<ffffffff8130f100>] driver_register+0x90/0x180 [<ffffffff81100438>] do_one_initcall+0x38/0x160 ---[ end trace ee38723fbefcd65c ]--- My GPIOs are on an I2C port expander, so we must use the *_cansleep() variant of the GPIO functions. This is was not being done in create_gpio_led(). We can change gpio_get_value() to gpio_get_value_cansleep() because it is only called from the platform_driver probe function, which is a context where we can sleep. Only tested on my gpio_cansleep() system, but it seems safe for all systems. Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c~drivers-leds-leds-gpioc-use-gpio_get_value_cansleep-when-initializing drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c~drivers-leds-leds-gpioc-use-gpio_get_value_cansleep-when-initializing +++ a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static int __devinit create_gpio_led(con } led_dat->cdev.brightness_set = gpio_led_set; if (template->default_state == LEDS_GPIO_DEFSTATE_KEEP) - state = !!gpio_get_value(led_dat->gpio) ^ led_dat->active_low; + state = !!gpio_get_value_cansleep(led_dat->gpio) ^ led_dat->active_low; else state = (template->default_state == LEDS_GPIO_DEFSTATE_ON); led_dat->cdev.brightness = state ? LED_FULL : LED_OFF; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-leds-leds-gpioc-use-gpio_get_value_cansleep-when-initializing.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html