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hwmon: (iio_hwmon) defer probe when no channel is found

iio_channel_get_all returns -ENODEV when it cannot find either phandles and
properties in the Device Tree or channels whose consumer_dev_name matches
iio_hwmon in iio_map_list. The iio_map_list is filled in by iio drivers
which might be probed after iio_hwmon.

It is better to defer the probe of iio_hwmon if such error is returned by
iio_channel_get_all in order to let a chance to iio drivers to expose
channels in iio_map_list.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

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Quentin Schulz and committed by
Guenter Roeck
9417fefe f9f8b33d

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drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
··· 73 73 name = dev->of_node->name; 74 74 75 75 channels = iio_channel_get_all(dev); 76 - if (IS_ERR(channels)) 76 + if (IS_ERR(channels)) { 77 + if (PTR_ERR(channels) == -ENODEV) 78 + return -EPROBE_DEFER; 77 79 return PTR_ERR(channels); 80 + } 78 81 79 82 st = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*st), GFP_KERNEL); 80 83 if (st == NULL) {