From: Nicolas Ferre Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:30:14 +0000 (+0100) Subject: backlight: pwm: Handle EPROBE_DEFER while requesting the PWM X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=68feaca0b13e453aa14ee064c1736202b48b342f;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git backlight: pwm: Handle EPROBE_DEFER while requesting the PWM When trying to request the PWM device with devm_pwm_get(), the EPROBE_DEFER flag is not handled properly. It can lead to the PWM not being found. Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre Acked-by: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Lee Jones --- diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c index 3a145a643e0d..6897f1c1bc73 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c @@ -274,6 +274,10 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) pb->pwm = devm_pwm_get(&pdev->dev, NULL); if (IS_ERR(pb->pwm)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(pb->pwm); + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) + goto err_alloc; + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to request PWM, trying legacy API\n"); pb->legacy = true; pb->pwm = pwm_request(data->pwm_id, "pwm-backlight");