Re: [patch 2.6.29-rc7] leds-gpio: just ignore invalid GPIOs

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 16:38:20 EST


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:46:44 -0800
David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sometimes it's awkward to make sure that the array in the
> platform_data handed to the leds-gpio driver has only valid
> data ... some leds may not be always available, and coping
> with that currently requires patching or rebuilding the array.
>
> This patch fixes that by making it be OK to pass an invalid
> GPIO (such as "-EINVAL") ... such table entries are skipped.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Diego Dompe <diego.dompe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Noted on OMAP3 Beagle board ... one of the three programmable
> LEDs is driven by a twl4030 GPIO, which might not be configured.
> (In fact it's a PWM-capable LED, but the PWM support isn't yet
> available.)
>
> drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
> @@ -90,13 +90,19 @@ static int gpio_led_probe(struct platfor
> cur_led = &pdata->leds[i];
> led_dat = &leds_data[i];
>
> + /* skip leds that aren't available */
> + led_dat->gpio = cur_led->gpio;
> + if (!gpio_is_valid(led_dat->gpio)) {
> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "skipping %s\n", cur_led->name);
> + continue;
> + }
> +
> ret = gpio_request(cur_led->gpio, cur_led->name);
> if (ret < 0)
> goto err;
>
> led_dat->cdev.name = cur_led->name;
> led_dat->cdev.default_trigger = cur_led->default_trigger;
> - led_dat->gpio = cur_led->gpio;
> led_dat->can_sleep = gpio_cansleep(cur_led->gpio);
> led_dat->active_low = cur_led->active_low;
> if (pdata->gpio_blink_set) {
> @@ -125,6 +131,8 @@ static int gpio_led_probe(struct platfor
> err:
> if (i > 0) {
> for (i = i - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
> + if (!gpio_is_valid(leds_data[i].gpio))
> + continue;
> led_classdev_unregister(&leds_data[i].cdev);
> cancel_work_sync(&leds_data[i].work);
> gpio_free(leds_data[i].gpio);
> @@ -145,6 +153,8 @@ static int __devexit gpio_led_remove(str
> leds_data = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
> for (i = 0; i < pdata->num_leds; i++) {
> + if (!gpio_is_valid(leds_data[i].gpio))
> + continue;
> led_classdev_unregister(&leds_data[i].cdev);
> cancel_work_sync(&leds_data[i].work);
> gpio_free(leds_data[i].gpio);

All this code has changed a lot in linux.next. Nothing applies and it
goes beyond my fix-it-up preparedness.


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