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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-05-27 08:56:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-05-27 08:56:21 -0700
commit30a7266f303f781d5487facff0370f27967f2e46 (patch)
treea9c3f08b377e8396902858a37ac410afb3e7b854 /drivers
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 (diff)
parentbacklight: pwm: Handle EPROBE_DEFER while requesting the PWM (diff)
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Merge tag 'backlight-fixes-4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight
Pull backlight fix from Lee Jones: "One simple fix to correctly handle -EPROBE_DEFER" * tag 'backlight-fixes-4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight: backlight: pwm: Handle EPROBE_DEFER while requesting the PWM
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
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");