Re: [PATCH] leds: simatic-ipc-leds-gpio: make sure we have the GPIO providing driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> If we register a "leds-gpio" platform device for GPIO pins that do not
> exist we get a -EPROBE_DEFER and the probe will be tried again later.
> If there is not driver to provide that pin we will poll forever and also
> create a lot of log messages.
> 
> So check if that GPIO driver is configured, if so it will come up
> eventually. If not we exit our probe function early and do not even
> bother registering the "leds-gpio". This method was chosen over "Kconfig
> depends" since this way we can add support for more devices and GPIO
> backends more easily without "depends"ing on all GPIO backends.

Not sure what we should do with this patch due to your self-reply on it.
So, if it's still needed, I would expect a new version / resend.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko