This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled spi: bcm2835: no dev_err() on clk_get() -EPROBE_DEFER to the 5.4-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: spi-bcm2835-no-dev_err-on-clk_get-eprobe_defer.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f497a9230079a663b08ef78a4e9cce3d48e6317f Author: Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Dec 16 18:08:02 2019 -0500 spi: bcm2835: no dev_err() on clk_get() -EPROBE_DEFER [ Upstream commit f4dc4abdce4cc290555604107c04854a911b9441 ] Use dev_dbg() on -EPROBE_DEFER and dev_err() on all other errors. Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <jquinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216230802.45715-2-jquinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c index 9ae1c96f4d3d4..0b5e92d28e4cf 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-bcm2835.c @@ -1292,7 +1292,10 @@ static int bcm2835_spi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) bs->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL); if (IS_ERR(bs->clk)) { err = PTR_ERR(bs->clk); - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get clk: %d\n", err); + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER) + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "could not get clk: %d\n", err); + else + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get clk: %d\n", err); goto out_controller_put; }