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    gpio: fix probe() error return in gpio driver probes · a342d215
    Ben Dooks authored
    
    
    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: default avatarBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
    Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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