This patch add a check to the mcp251xfd_probe() function to bail out and give the user a proper error message if no IRQ is specified. Otherwise the driver will probe just fine but ifup will fail with a meaningless "RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument" error message. Reported-by: Niels Petter <petter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-core.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-core.c b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-core.c index 9c215f7c5f81..8a39be076e14 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-core.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/spi/mcp251xfd/mcp251xfd-core.c @@ -2738,6 +2738,10 @@ static int mcp251xfd_probe(struct spi_device *spi) u32 freq; int err; + if (!spi->irq) + return dev_err_probe(&spi->dev, -ENXIO, + "No IRQ specified (maybe node \"interrupts-extended\" in DT missing)!\n"); + rx_int = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&spi->dev, "microchip,rx-int", GPIOD_IN); if (PTR_ERR(rx_int) == -EPROBE_DEFER) -- 2.29.2