It doesn't matter whether "mux-states" is not present or there is some other issue parsing it causing an error. Drop the presence check and rework the error handling to ignore anything other than deferred probe. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c b/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c index ee4ce4249698..ed8ba30eb038 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ static int can_transceiver_phy_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct phy *phy; struct gpio_desc *standby_gpio; struct gpio_desc *enable_gpio; + struct mux_state *mux_state; u32 max_bitrate = 0; int err; @@ -113,15 +114,12 @@ static int can_transceiver_phy_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) match = of_match_node(can_transceiver_phy_ids, pdev->dev.of_node); drvdata = match->data; - if (of_property_read_bool(dev->of_node, "mux-states")) { - struct mux_state *mux_state; - - mux_state = devm_mux_state_get(dev, NULL); - if (IS_ERR(mux_state)) - return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(mux_state), - "failed to get mux\n"); + mux_state = devm_mux_state_get(dev, NULL); + if (IS_ERR(mux_state)) { + if (PTR_ERR(mux_state) == -EPROBE_DEFER) + return PTR_ERR(mux_state); + } else can_transceiver_phy->mux_state = mux_state; - } phy = devm_phy_create(dev, dev->of_node, &can_transceiver_phy_ops); -- 2.45.2