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; }