The driver neglects to check the result of platform_get_irq()'s call and blithely passes the negative error codes to request_irq() (which takes *unsigned* IRQ #s), causing it to fail with -EINVAL (overridden by -ENODEV further below). Stop calling request_irq() with the invalid IRQ #s. Fixes: c27d85f3f3c5 ("[SCSI] SNI RM 53c710 driver") Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <s.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in version 3: - fixed up the patch summary. Changes in version 2: - new patch. drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: scsi/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c =================================================================== --- scsi.orig/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c +++ scsi/drivers/scsi/sni_53c710.c @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static int snirm710_probe(struct platfor struct NCR_700_Host_Parameters *hostdata; struct Scsi_Host *host; struct resource *res; + int rc; res = platform_get_resource(dev, IORESOURCE_MEM, 0); if (!res) @@ -83,7 +84,9 @@ static int snirm710_probe(struct platfor goto out_kfree; host->this_id = 7; host->base = base; - host->irq = platform_get_irq(dev, 0); + host->irq = rc = platform_get_irq(dev, 0); + if (rc < 0) + goto out_put_host; if(request_irq(host->irq, NCR_700_intr, IRQF_SHARED, "snirm710", host)) { printk(KERN_ERR "snirm710: request_irq failed!\n"); goto out_put_host;