The driver is written as if platform_get_irq() returns 0 on errors (while actually it returns a negative error code), blithely passing these error codes to request_irq() (which takes *unsigned* IRQ #) -- which fails with -EINVAL. Add the necessary error check to the pre-existing *if* statement forcing the driver into the polling mode... Fixes: 4ad48e6ab18c ("i2c: Renesas Highlander FPGA SMBus support") Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxx> --- This patch is against the 'i2c/for-current' branch of Wolfram Sang's 'linux.git' repo. Sorry, I realized just now that this patch should have been a part of the 6-patch series (already merged)... drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-highlander.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-highlander.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-highlander.c +++ linux/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-highlander.c @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static int highlander_i2c_probe(struct p platform_set_drvdata(pdev, dev); dev->irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); - if (iic_force_poll) + if (dev->irq < 0 || iic_force_poll) dev->irq = 0; if (dev->irq) {