The driver overrides the error codes returned by platform_get_irq() to -ENODEV, so if it returns -EPROBE_DEFER, the driver will fail the probe permanently instead of the deferred probing. Switch to propagating the error codes upstream... Fixes: 0d676a6c4390 ("i2c: add support for Socionext SynQuacer I2C controller") Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-synquacer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-synquacer.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-synquacer.c +++ linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-synquacer.c @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static int synquacer_i2c_probe(struct pl i2c->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); if (i2c->irq < 0) - return -ENODEV; + return i2c->irq; ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, i2c->irq, synquacer_i2c_isr, 0, dev_name(&pdev->dev), i2c);