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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-27 18:54:13 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-27 18:54:13 +0100
commit8f677bc819e7a74cf10e30daf06e8b151d1e6a94 (patch)
tree379e4e32a06dfb6d2ca3519ca4ef6b7507fad197 /drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c
parentdocs: driver-model: Add documentation for sync_state (diff)
parentLinux 5.4-rc5 (diff)
Merge 5.4-rc5 into driver-core-next
We want the sysfs fix in here as well to build on top of. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c b/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c
index 97e3639e99d0..08520b3a18b8 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/soc_button_array.c
@@ -92,11 +92,18 @@ soc_button_device_create(struct platform_device *pdev,
continue;
gpio = soc_button_lookup_gpio(&pdev->dev, info->acpi_index);
- if (gpio < 0 && gpio != -ENOENT) {
- error = gpio;
- goto err_free_mem;
- } else if (!gpio_is_valid(gpio)) {
- /* Skip GPIO if not present */
+ if (!gpio_is_valid(gpio)) {
+ /*
+ * Skip GPIO if not present. Note we deliberately
+ * ignore -EPROBE_DEFER errors here. On some devices
+ * Intel is using so called virtual GPIOs which are not
+ * GPIOs at all but some way for AML code to check some
+ * random status bits without need a custom opregion.
+ * In some cases the resources table we parse points to
+ * such a virtual GPIO, since these are not real GPIOs
+ * we do not have a driver for these so they will never
+ * show up, therefore we ignore -EPROBE_DEFER.
+ */
continue;
}