From: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> of_platform_populate does not return an error if creating the platform device fails. This means almost any error from driver core cannot be detected by the caller. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/of/platform.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c index 404d1da..622aeb3 100644 --- a/drivers/of/platform.c +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c @@ -391,7 +391,9 @@ static int of_platform_bus_create(struct device_node *bus, } dev = of_platform_device_create_pdata(bus, bus_id, platform_data, parent); - if (!dev || !of_match_node(matches, bus)) + if (!dev) + return -ENODEV; + if (!of_match_node(matches, bus)) return 0; for_each_child_of_node(bus, child) { -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html