On Fri 2019-05-31 08:39:18, Fabien DESSENNE wrote: > Hi Pavel > > > On 31/05/2019 10:19 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> [ Upstream commit b5b5a27bee5884860798ffd0f08e611a3942064b ] > >> > >> During probe, return the provided errors value instead of -ENODEV. > >> This allows the driver to be deferred probed if needed. > > This is not correct AFAICT. > > > The driver gets defer probed *if needed*. *if needed* is for the case > where platform_get_irq returns -EPROBE_DEFER, which happens if the irq > controller is not ready yet. > > Of course, for the other cases, the probe would just fail.
"This" was referring to code below. Sorry for confusion.
Best regards,
Pavel
> >> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/stm32/stm32-dcmi.c
> >> @@ -1673,8 +1673,9 @@ static int dcmi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >>
> >> irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> >> if (irq <= 0) {
> >> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Could not get irq\n");
> >> - return -ENODEV;
> >> + if (irq != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> >> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Could not get irq\n");
> >> + return irq;
> >> }
> >>
> >> dcmi->res = platform_get_resource(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0);
> > irq == 0 is clearly means error here, but will be interpretted as
> > success when returned to the caller.
>
>
> Thank you for pointing this.
>
> It shall be 'return irq ? irq : -ENXIO;' I will send a fix for this.
>
>
> >
> > As device is not initialized at that point, I'd expect some kind of
> > crash later.
> > Pavel
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