-ENOENT (ie. "there is no clock") is fine to ignore for an optional clock, other values are not supposed to be ignored and should be escalated to the caller (e.g. -EPROBE_DEFER). Ignore -ENOENT by using devm_clk_get_optional(). While touching this code also add an error message for the fatal errors. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c index e446236e81f2..9f3e2eb8011d 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/meson-rng.c @@ -54,9 +54,15 @@ static int meson_rng_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) if (IS_ERR(data->base)) return PTR_ERR(data->base); - data->core_clk = devm_clk_get(dev, "core"); - if (IS_ERR(data->core_clk)) - data->core_clk = NULL; + data->core_clk = devm_clk_get_optional(dev, "core"); + if (IS_ERR(data->core_clk)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(data->core_clk); + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) + dev_err(dev, "Failed to get core clock: %pe\n", + data->core_clk); + + return ret; + } if (data->core_clk) { ret = clk_prepare_enable(data->core_clk); -- 2.30.2