From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Walleij Subject: [PATCH] net: smsc911x: back out silently on probe deferrals Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 14:18:00 +0100 Message-ID: <1481289480-22096-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck , Jeremy Linton , Kamlakant Patel , Pavel Fedin , Linus Walleij To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" , Steve Glendinning Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:35102 "EHLO mail-wm0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932595AbcLINSS (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Dec 2016 08:18:18 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f41.google.com with SMTP id a197so26673639wmd.0 for ; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 05:18:17 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: When trying to get a regulator we may get deferred and we see this noise: smsc911x 1b800000.ethernet-ebi2 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): couldn't get regulators -517 Then the driver continues anyway. Which means that the regulator may not be properly retrieved and reference counted, and may be switched off in case noone else is using it. Fix this by returning silently on deferred probe and let the system work it out. Cc: Jeremy Linton Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij --- drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c index 86b7c04e3738..c492e4ffd9e7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/smsc/smsc911x.c @@ -442,9 +442,16 @@ static int smsc911x_request_resources(struct platform_device *pdev) ret = regulator_bulk_get(&pdev->dev, ARRAY_SIZE(pdata->supplies), pdata->supplies); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + /* + * Retry on deferrals, else just report the error + * and try to continue. + */ + if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) + return ret; netdev_err(ndev, "couldn't get regulators %d\n", ret); + } /* Request optional RESET GPIO */ pdata->reset_gpiod = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&pdev->dev, -- 2.7.4