pinctrl: implement pinctrl deferred probing

If drivers try to obtain pinctrl handles for a pin controller that
has not yet registered to the subsystem, we need to be able to
back out and retry with deferred probing. So let's return
-EPROBE_DEFER whenever this location fails. Also downgrade the
errors to info, maybe we will even set them to debug once the
deferred probing is commonplace.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
index eb46b1c0b07a..4431c3e727ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pinctrl.txt
@@ -1043,6 +1043,11 @@ quickly poking some registers.
 The pins are allocated for your device when you issue the pinctrl_get() call,
 after this you should be able to see this in the debugfs listing of all pins.
 
+NOTE: the pinctrl system will return -EPROBE_DEFER if it cannot find the
+requested pinctrl handles, for example if the pinctrl driver has not yet
+registered. Thus make sure that the error path in your driver gracefully
+cleans up and is ready to retry the probing later in the startup process.
+
 
 System pin control hogging
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