iio:inkern: fix overwritten -EPROBE_DEFER in of_iio_channel_get_by_name

Fixes: a2c12493ed7e ('iio: of_iio_channel_get_by_name() returns non-null pointers for error legs')

which improperly assumes that of_iio_channel_get_by_name must always
return NULL and thus now hides -EPROBE_DEFER.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Pointner <johannes.pointner@br-automation.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/drivers/iio/inkern.c b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
index c749700..f084610 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/iio/inkern.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/inkern.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static struct iio_channel *of_iio_channel_get_by_name(struct device_node *np,
                        index = of_property_match_string(np, "io-channel-names",
                                                         name);
                chan = of_iio_channel_get(np, index);
-               if (!IS_ERR(chan))
+               if (!IS_ERR(chan) || PTR_ERR(chan) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
                        break;
                else if (name && index >= 0) {
                        pr_err("ERROR: could not get IIO channel %s:%s(%i)\n",