The gpiochip may have dependencies from pinmux and so got deferred. Now it will print error message every time -EPROBE_DEFER is returned which is unnecessary: "gpiochip_add_data_with_key: GPIOs 0..31 (gpio-0-31) failed to register, -517" Hence, do suppress error message for -EPROBE_DEFER case. Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> --- drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c index 089ddcaa9bc6..fd2c503a6aab 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c @@ -771,9 +771,11 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data, ida_free(&gpio_ida, gdev->id); err_free_gdev: /* failures here can mean systems won't boot... */ - pr_err("%s: GPIOs %d..%d (%s) failed to register, %d\n", __func__, - gdev->base, gdev->base + gdev->ngpio - 1, - gc->label ? : "generic", ret); + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) { + pr_err("%s: GPIOs %d..%d (%s) failed to register, %d\n", __func__, + gdev->base, gdev->base + gdev->ngpio - 1, + gc->label ? : "generic", ret); + } kfree(gdev); return ret; } -- 2.17.1