Hi!

> > If this is taking longer to fix, should c85823390215 be reverted in
> > the meantime? It does not seem particulary important/urgent...
> 
> No patience between the v4.16 release candidates eh ;)
> 
> commit 6662ae6af82df10259a70c7569b4c12ea7f3ba93
> ("gpiolib: Keep returning EPROBE_DEFER when we should")
> 
> and
> 
> commit ce27fb2c56db6ccfe8099343bb4afdab15e77e7b
> ("gpio: Handle deferred probing in of_find_gpio() properly")
> 
> that are both in Torvalds' tree since yesterday should be fixing
> this, I think? Did you try just using the upstream HEAD?

Ok, so this code looks pretty crazy to me: I tried removing the
"of_find_spi_gpio" part, and audio started working.

What is going on with the ()s around == s? You made me look up C
operator precedence.

Hmm, and it is also wrong, right? It turns any error code into ENOENT,
as it tries to do the "special handling".

                 *                                                                      
                 * This means we don't need to look any further for                     
                 * alternate name conventions, and we should really                     
                 * preserve the return code for our user to be able to                  
                 * retry probing later.                                                 
                 */
                if (IS_ERR(desc) && PTR_ERR(desc) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
                        return desc;

                if (!IS_ERR(desc) || (PTR_ERR(desc) != -ENOENT))
                        break;
        }

        /* Special handling for SPI GPIOs if used */
        if (IS_ERR(desc))
                desc = of_find_spi_gpio(dev, con_id, &of_flags);

        /* Special handling for regulator GPIOs if used */
        if (IS_ERR(desc) && PTR_ERR(desc) != -EPROBE_DEFER)
                desc = of_find_regulator_gpio(dev, con_id, &of_flags);

Something like this?

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
index 84e5a9d..f0fab26 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-of.c
@@ -241,29 +241,17 @@ struct gpio_desc *of_find_gpio(struct device *dev, const char *con_id,
 
 		desc = of_get_named_gpiod_flags(dev->of_node, prop_name, idx,
 						&of_flags);
-		/*
-		 * -EPROBE_DEFER in our case means that we found a
-		 * valid GPIO property, but no controller has been
-		 * registered so far.
-		 *
-		 * This means we don't need to look any further for
-		 * alternate name conventions, and we should really
-		 * preserve the return code for our user to be able to
-		 * retry probing later.
-		 */
-		if (IS_ERR(desc) && PTR_ERR(desc) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
-			return desc;
 
-		if (!IS_ERR(desc) || (PTR_ERR(desc) != -ENOENT))
+		if (!IS_ERR(desc) || PTR_ERR(desc) != -ENOENT)
 			break;
 	}
 
 	/* Special handling for SPI GPIOs if used */
-	if (IS_ERR(desc))
+	if (IS_ERR(desc) && PTR_ERR(desc) == -ENOENT)
 		desc = of_find_spi_gpio(dev, con_id, &of_flags);
 
 	/* Special handling for regulator GPIOs if used */
-	if (IS_ERR(desc) && PTR_ERR(desc) != -EPROBE_DEFER)
+	if (IS_ERR(desc) && PTR_ERR(desc) == -ENOENT)
 		desc = of_find_regulator_gpio(dev, con_id, &of_flags);
 
 	if (IS_ERR(desc))

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