This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: fec: defer probe if regulator is not ready 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: net-fec-defer-probe-if-regulator-is-not-ready.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. >From foo@baz Sat Jan 13 10:51:05 CET 2018 From: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:39:30 +0800 Subject: net: fec: defer probe if regulator is not ready From: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3f38c683033a9a0a2738e7067f449deefabfa3ef ] Defer probe if regulator is not ready. E.g. some regulator is fixed regulator controlled by i2c expander gpio, the i2c device may be probed after the driver, then it should handle the case of defer probe error. Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c @@ -3458,6 +3458,10 @@ fec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) goto failed_regulator; } } else { + if (PTR_ERR(fep->reg_phy) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { + ret = -EPROBE_DEFER; + goto failed_regulator; + } fep->reg_phy = NULL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fugang.duan@xxxxxxx are queue-4.14/net-fec-defer-probe-if-regulator-is-not-ready.patch queue-4.14/net-fec-free-restore-resource-in-related-probe-error-pathes.patch queue-4.14/net-fec-restore-dev_id-in-the-cases-of-probe-error.patch