Re: [PATCH 13/20] pinctrl: Error if mapping table's control dev can'tbe found

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a serious error, and the pin control system will not function
> correctly if it ends up not programing the mapping table entries into
> the HW. Instead of just ignoring this, error out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks applied, this came to bite me today so I see the value
of being strict here.

> +                       /* Eventually, this should trigger deferred probe */
> +                       return -ENODEV;

I changed this to ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) in my codebase as
it returns a pointer.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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