[PATCH] leds: leds-gpio: Convert gpio_blink_set() to use GPIO descriptors

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Thu Nov 6 02:32:19 PST 2014


Hi Mika,

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> "leds: leds-gpio: Add support for GPIO descriptors" broke leds-gpio on
>> non-DT platforms for me:
>>
>>     gpiod_direction_output: invalid GPIO
>>     leds-gpio: probe of leds-gpio failed with error -22
>>
>> (desc is NULL in gpiod_direction_output()).
>>
>> DT shmobile reference/multi-platform are fine.
>>
>> I noticed the hard way, as I wanted to add some LEDs to a new platform,
>> but couldn't get it work. It turned out it also had stopped working on
>> r8a7740/armadillo-legacy, so I started bisecting...
>
> Which board file that is?
>
> There is a bug that gpio_to_desc() returns NULL instead if ERR_PTR() in
> that patch but I wonder why gpio_is_valid() and devm_gpio_request_one()
> do not complain about that prior.

arch/arm/mach-shmobile/board-armadillo800eva.c

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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