[PATCH 2/2] pmdomain: rockchip: Don't log when of_clk_get() fails with -EPROBE_DEFER

Sergey Shtylyov s.shtylyov at auroraos.dev
Thu Nov 5 12:47:13 PST 2026


Hello!

   Please consider using --no-git-fallback with scripts/get_maintainer.pl --
I don't see what do I have to do with this patch (other than fixing another
bug in this driver earlier).

On 11/5/26 3:12 AM, Yao Zi wrote:

> Current error handling code considers -EPROBE_DEFER as hard errors,
> logs misleading dmesg like,
> 
> rockchip-pm-domain ff600000.power-management:power-controller: power-domain: failed to get clk at index 0: -517
> rockchip-pm-domain ff600000.power-management:power-controller: failed to handle node power-domain: -517
> 
> Use dev_err_probe() at the callsite of of_clk_get(),

> and check for -EPROBE_DEFER in places> where its return value could propagate to.

   To where?
   And I didn't understand why you couldn't just call dev_err_probe() everywhere --
the error code seems to always be propagated...

> Fixes: 7c696693a4f5 ("soc: rockchip: power-domain: Add power domain driver")
> Fixes: 6be05b5ec161 ("soc: rockchip: power-domain: add support for sub-power domains")
> Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <me at ziyao.cc>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c b/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c
> index 34c862e56aad..c147cc88edb1 100644
> --- a/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c
> +++ b/drivers/pmdomain/rockchip/pm-domains.c
[...]> @@ -1006,8 +1006,10 @@ static int rockchip_pm_add_subdomain(struct rockchip_pmu *pmu,
> 
>                 error = rockchip_pm_add_one_domain(pmu, np);
>                 if (error) {
> -                       dev_err(pmu->dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> -                               np, error);
> +                       if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)

   Why not just call dev_err_probe() instead?

> +                               dev_err(pmu->dev,
> +                                       "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> +                                       np, error);
>                         return error;
>                 }
> 
> @@ -1102,15 +1104,17 @@ static int rockchip_pm_domain_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         for_each_available_child_of_node_scoped(np, node) {
>                 error = rockchip_pm_add_one_domain(pmu, node);
>                 if (error) {
> -                       dev_err(dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> -                               node, error);
> +                       if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +                               dev_err(dev, "failed to handle node %pOFn: %d\n",
> +                                       node, error);
>                         goto err_out;
>                 }
> 
>                 error = rockchip_pm_add_subdomain(pmu, node);
>                 if (error < 0) {
> -                       dev_err(dev, "failed to handle subdomain node %pOFn: %d\n",
> -                               node, error);
> +                       if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +                               dev_err(dev, "failed to handle subdomain node %pOFn: %d\n",
> +                                       node, error);
>                         goto err_out;
>                 }
>         }
[...]

MBR, Sergey




More information about the Linux-rockchip mailing list