'status' is known to be 0 at this point. The expected error code is PTR_ERR(clk). Switch to dev_err_probe() in order to display the expected error code (in a human readable way). This also filters -EPROBE_DEFER cases, should it happen. Fixes: 1ab7f2a43558 ("staging: mt7621-spi: add mt7621 support") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-mt7621.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-mt7621.c b/drivers/spi/spi-mt7621.c index b4b9b7309b5e..351b0ef52bbc 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-mt7621.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-mt7621.c @@ -340,11 +340,9 @@ static int mt7621_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return PTR_ERR(base); clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL); - if (IS_ERR(clk)) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to get SYS clock, err=%d\n", - status); - return PTR_ERR(clk); - } + if (IS_ERR(clk)) + return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, PTR_ERR(clk), + "unable to get SYS clock\n"); status = clk_prepare_enable(clk); if (status) -- 2.34.1