Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Several cases of overlapping changes which were for the most
part trivially resolvable.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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;
 		}