Re: [PATCH] pps: clients: gpio: Propagate return value from pps_gpio_probe

[Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>]

On 29/01/22 23:02, Robert Hancock wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-01-13 at 09:17 +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
>> On 12/01/22 22:07, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 02:52:14PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>>>> If the pps-gpio driver was probed prior to the GPIO device it uses, the
>>>> devm_gpiod_get call returned an -EPROBE_DEFER error, but pps_gpio_probe
>>>> replaced that error code with -EINVAL, causing the pps-gpio probe to
>>>> fail and not be retried later. Propagate the error return value so that
>>>> deferred probe works properly.
>>>
>>> FWIW,
>>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
> 
> It's not entirely clear to me what tree PPS patches are supposed to go through.
> Seems like some recent ones have gone through char-misc? Not sure if someone
> has this in their queue?

LinuxPPS has no its own tree. All related patches usually are sent to me to be
acked and to Greg Kroah-Hartman for inclusion.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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