Re: [PATCH] sata_highbank: fix deferred probing

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

 	Hi Sergei,

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> The driver overrides the error codes returned by platform_get_irq() to
> -EINVAL, so if it returns -EPROBE_DEFER, the driver would fail the probe
> permanently instead of the deferred probing. Switch to propagating the
> error code upstream, still checking/overriding IRQ0 as libata regards it
> as "no IRQ" (thus polling) anyway...
>
> Fixes: 9ec36cafe43b ("of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq")
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@omprussia.ru>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 4a24efa16e7db023
("sata_highbank: fix deferred probing") in block/for-next.

> --- linux-block.orig/drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c
> +++ linux-block/drivers/ata/sata_highbank.c
> @@ -469,10 +469,12 @@ static int ahci_highbank_probe(struct pl
> 	}
>
> 	irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
> -	if (irq <= 0) {
> +	if (irq < 0) {
> 		dev_err(dev, "no irq\n");

This message should not be printed in case of -EPROBE_DEFER...

> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		return irq;

... hence

     return dev_err_probe(dev, irq, "no irq\n");

Same for pata_rb532_cf.

> 	}
> +	if (!irq)
> +		return -EINVAL;
>
> 	hpriv = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*hpriv), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!hpriv) {
>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

 						Geert

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