This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
leds: pwm: silently error out on EPROBE_DEFER
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
leds-pwm-silently-error-out-on-eprobe_defer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2046c5698f3f2aa9fdffe76dcdb10bd44cbcda67
Author: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 6 15:59:04 2018 +0200
leds: pwm: silently error out on EPROBE_DEFER
[ Upstream commit 9aec30371fb095a0c9415f3f0146ae269c3713d8 ]
When probing, if we fail to get the pwm due to probe deferal, we shouldn't
print an error message. Just be silent in this case.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c b/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c
index 8d456dc6c5bfe..83f9bbe57e02b 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c
@@ -101,8 +101,9 @@ static int led_pwm_add(struct device *dev, struct led_pwm_priv *priv,
led_data->pwm = devm_pwm_get(dev, led->name);
if (IS_ERR(led_data->pwm)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(led_data->pwm);
- dev_err(dev, "unable to request PWM for %s: %d\n",
- led->name, ret);
+ if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
+ dev_err(dev, "unable to request PWM for %s: %d\n",
+ led->name, ret);
return ret;
}
