[PATCH v2] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Mon Nov 30 04:55:19 PST 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Li Yang <leoli at freescale.com> wrote:

> -       if (IS_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl)) {
> +       /* bailout on -ENOMEM or -EPROBE_DEFER, continue for other errors */
> +       if (PTR_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl) == -ENOMEM ||
> +                       PTR_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {

This is one of the evils of deferred probe: you never know if
something will eventually turn up. It feels wrong to bail out
on deferred probe...

I have no better idea though.
Acked-by

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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