On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:55:33PM -0800, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> writes:

>  Mark> Since the driver is happy to continue without the pins why is it
>  Mark> bothering requesting them in the first place?  In other words, this
>  Mark> should be a hard error.

> Sorry, I disagree. As was discussed recently, there's several reasons
> why the pinctrl call might fail, and not all are fatal (E.G. pinmux
> already setup by bootloader):

> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1399756

I'd expect the platform to provide stub mappings for cases where the
pinmux code shouldn't do anything.