MC portals may not be available at the initial probing attempt due to dependencies on other modules. Check the return value of the MC portal allocation function and defer probing in case it's not available yet. For all other error cases the behaviour stays the same. Signed-off-by: Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@xxxxxxx> --- v2: rebase on latest driver code drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/dpaa2-eth.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/dpaa2-eth.c b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/dpaa2-eth.c index f013af6..ac1a750 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/dpaa2-eth.c +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethernet/dpaa2-eth.c @@ -2441,7 +2441,10 @@ static int dpaa2_eth_probe(struct fsl_mc_device *dpni_dev) err = fsl_mc_portal_allocate(dpni_dev, FSL_MC_IO_ATOMIC_CONTEXT_PORTAL, &priv->mc_io); if (err) { - dev_err(dev, "MC portal allocation failed\n"); + if (err == -ENXIO) + err = -EPROBE_DEFER; + else + dev_err(dev, "MC portal allocation failed\n"); goto err_portal_alloc; } -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel