If the chip isn't powered, this call is likely to return an error. Without a log here the driver will silently fail to probe. Common errors are ENXIO (when the chip isn't powered) and ETIMEDOUT (when the i2c bus isn't powered). Signed-off-by: Aren Moynihan <aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Notes: Changes in v2: - use dev_err_probe drivers/iio/light/stk3310.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/stk3310.c b/drivers/iio/light/stk3310.c index 968a2cc59d09..d314659e7dc2 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/stk3310.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/stk3310.c @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ static int stk3310_init(struct iio_dev *indio_dev) ret = regmap_read(data->regmap, STK3310_REG_ID, &chipid); if (ret < 0) - return ret; + return dev_err_probe(&client->dev, ret, "failed to read chip id\n"); ret = stk3310_check_chip_id(chipid); if (ret < 0) -- 2.47.0