gpio: fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes
A number of drivers in drivers/gpio return -ENODEV when confronted with missing setup parameters such as the platform data. However, returning -ENODEV causes the driver layer to silently ignore the driver as it assumes the probe did not find anything and was only speculative. To make life easier to discern why a driver is not being attached, change to returning -EINVAL, which is a better description of the fact that the driver data was not valid. Also add a set of dev_dbg() statements to the error paths to provide an better explanation of the error as there may be more that one point in the driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -217,8 +217,10 @@ static int __devinit max7301_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
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int i, ret;
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pdata = spi->dev.platform_data;
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if (!pdata || !pdata->base)
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return -ENODEV;
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if (!pdata || !pdata->base) {
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dev_dbg(&spi->dev, "incorrect or missing platform data\n");
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return -EINVAL;
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}
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/*
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* bits_per_word cannot be configured in platform data
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