From: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> If we cannot communicate with the EC chip to detect the protocol version and its features, it's very likely useless to continue. Else we will commit all kind of uninformed mistakes (using the wrong protocol, the wrong buffer size, mixing the EC with other chips). Signed-off-by: Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Benson Leung <bleung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c b/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c index b0ca5a4c..c5528ae 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/cros_ec.c @@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ int cros_ec_register(struct cros_ec_device *ec_dev) mutex_init(&ec_dev->lock); - cros_ec_query_all(ec_dev); + err = cros_ec_query_all(ec_dev); + if (err) { + dev_err(dev, "Cannot identify the EC: error %d\n", err); + return err; + } if (ec_dev->irq) { err = request_threaded_irq(ec_dev->irq, NULL, ec_irq_thread, -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html