On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:55:33PM -0800, Peter Korsgaard wrote:

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"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.