[PATCH] pinctrl: mtmips: do not log when repeating the same pinctrl request

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 5:16 PM Shiji Yang <yangshiji66 at outlook.com> wrote:

> Sometimes when driver fails to probe a device, the kernel will retry
> it later. However, this will result in duplicate requests for the
> same pinctrl configuration. In this case, we should not throw error
> logs. This patch adds extra check for the pin group function. Now the
> pinctrl driver only prints error log when attempting to configure the
> same group as different functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shiji Yang <yangshiji66 at outlook.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c
> index efd77b6c5..8f5493220 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/mediatek/pinctrl-mtmips.c
> @@ -125,8 +125,9 @@ static int mtmips_pmx_group_enable(struct pinctrl_dev *pctrldev,
>
>         /* dont allow double use */
>         if (p->groups[group].enabled) {
> -               dev_err(p->dev, "%s is already enabled\n",
> -                       p->groups[group].name);
> +               if (!p->func[func]->enabled)
> +                       dev_err(p->dev, "%s is already enabled\n",
> +                               p->groups[group].name);

Why is the driver not backing out properly and setting this .enabled back
to false when probing fails for some requesting driver?

Or am I getting something wrong here?

Yours,
Linus Walleij