Before trying to properly initialize the touchpad and generate bunch of errors, let's first see it there is anything at the given address. If we get error, fail silently with -ENXIO. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: switched over to i2c_smbus_read_byte() as Guenter suggested drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c b/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c index 5d3b53dd2fa2..3b616cb7c67f 100644 --- a/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/elan_i2c_core.c @@ -1091,6 +1091,13 @@ static int elan_probe(struct i2c_client *client, return error; } + /* Make sure there is something at this address */ + error = i2c_smbus_read_byte(client); + if (error < 0) { + dev_dbg(&client->dev, "nothing at this address: %d\n", error); + return -ENXIO; + } + /* Initialize the touchpad. */ error = elan_initialize(data); if (error) -- 2.13.0.rc2.291.g57267f2277-goog -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html