From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 23426a25e55a417dc104df08781b6eff95e65f3f ] The DSA core, DSA taggers and DSA drivers all make use of module_init(). Hence they get initialised at device_initcall() time. The ordering is non-deterministic. It can be a DSA driver is bound to a device before the needed tag driver has been initialised, resulting in the message: No tagger for this switch Rather than have this be fatal, return -EPROBE_DEFER so that it is tried again later once all the needed drivers have been loaded. Fixes: d3b8c04988ca ("dsa: Add boilerplate helper to register DSA tag driver modules") Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/dsa/dsa2.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/dsa/dsa2.c +++ b/net/dsa/dsa2.c @@ -623,6 +623,8 @@ static int dsa_port_parse_cpu(struct dsa tag_protocol = ds->ops->get_tag_protocol(ds, dp->index); tag_ops = dsa_tag_driver_get(tag_protocol); if (IS_ERR(tag_ops)) { + if (PTR_ERR(tag_ops) == -ENOPROTOOPT) + return -EPROBE_DEFER; dev_warn(ds->dev, "No tagger for this switch\n"); return PTR_ERR(tag_ops); }