This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled power: supply: cw2015: use dev_err_probe to allow deferred probe to the 5.14-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: power-supply-cw2015-use-dev_err_probe-to-allow-defer.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 54fa9345a71bf0f1ff9931fa3895f796af89d467 Author: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 1 23:05:16 2021 +0100 power: supply: cw2015: use dev_err_probe to allow deferred probe [ Upstream commit ad1abe476995d97bfe7546ea91bb4f3dcdfbf3ab ] Deal with deferred probe using dev_err_probe so the error is handled and avoid logging lots probe defer information like the following: [ 9.125121] cw2015 4-0062: Failed to register power supply [ 9.211131] cw2015 4-0062: Failed to register power supply Fixes: b4c7715c10c1 ("power: supply: add CellWise cw2015 fuel gauge driver") Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c b/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c index d110597746b0..091868e9e9e8 100644 --- a/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c +++ b/drivers/power/supply/cw2015_battery.c @@ -679,7 +679,9 @@ static int cw_bat_probe(struct i2c_client *client) &cw2015_bat_desc, &psy_cfg); if (IS_ERR(cw_bat->rk_bat)) { - dev_err(cw_bat->dev, "Failed to register power supply\n"); + /* try again if this happens */ + dev_err_probe(&client->dev, PTR_ERR(cw_bat->rk_bat), + "Failed to register power supply\n"); return PTR_ERR(cw_bat->rk_bat); }