It's difficult to notice that driver failed to probe by looking at KMSG when devm_devfreq_add_device() fails. Add explicit error message for this case. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c index 30382bdfc655..f0d414b881e3 100644 --- a/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c +++ b/drivers/devfreq/tegra30-devfreq.c @@ -926,8 +926,10 @@ static int tegra_devfreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) devfreq = devm_devfreq_add_device(&pdev->dev, &tegra_devfreq_profile, "tegra_actmon", NULL); - if (IS_ERR(devfreq)) + if (IS_ERR(devfreq)) { + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to add device: %pe\n", devfreq); return PTR_ERR(devfreq); + } return 0; } -- 2.36.1