diff --git a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/dprc-driver.c b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/dprc-driver.c
index 54c576d68122..3d850515e3e5 100644
--- a/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/dprc-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/bus/fsl-mc/dprc-driver.c
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ static void dprc_add_new_devices(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_bus_dev,
  * dprc_scan_objects - Discover objects in a DPRC
  *
  * @mc_bus_dev: pointer to the fsl-mc device that represents a DPRC object
+ * @alloc_interrupts: if true the function allocates the interrupt pool,
+ * otherwise the interrupt allocation is delayed
  *
  * Detects objects added and removed from a DPRC and synchronizes the
  * state of the Linux bus driver, MC by adding and removing
@@ -234,7 +236,8 @@ static void dprc_add_new_devices(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_bus_dev,
  * populated before they can get allocation requests from probe callbacks
  * of the device drivers for the non-allocatable devices.
  */
-static int dprc_scan_objects(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_bus_dev)
+static int dprc_scan_objects(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_bus_dev,
+			    bool alloc_interrupts)
 {
 	int num_child_objects;
 	int dprc_get_obj_failures;
@@ -322,7 +325,7 @@ static int dprc_scan_objects(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_bus_dev)
 				 irq_count, FSL_MC_IRQ_POOL_MAX_TOTAL_IRQS);
 		}
 
-		if (!mc_bus->irq_resources) {
+		if (alloc_interrupts && !mc_bus->irq_resources) {
 			error = fsl_mc_populate_irq_pool(mc_bus,
 				FSL_MC_IRQ_POOL_MAX_TOTAL_IRQS);
 			if (error < 0)
@@ -362,7 +365,7 @@ static int dprc_scan_container(struct fsl_mc_device *mc_bus_dev)
 	 * Discover objects in the DPRC:
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&mc_bus->scan_mutex);
-	error = dprc_scan_objects(mc_bus_dev);
+	error = dprc_scan_objects(mc_bus_dev, true);
 	mutex_unlock(&mc_bus->scan_mutex);
 	if (error < 0) {
 		fsl_mc_cleanup_all_resource_pools(mc_bus_dev);
@@ -432,7 +435,7 @@ static irqreturn_t dprc_irq0_handler_thread(int irq_num, void *arg)
 		      DPRC_IRQ_EVENT_OBJ_DESTROYED |
 		      DPRC_IRQ_EVENT_OBJ_CREATED)) {
 
-		error = dprc_scan_objects(mc_dev);
+		error = dprc_scan_objects(mc_dev, true);
 		if (error < 0) {
 			/*
 			 * If the error is -ENXIO, we ignore it, as it indicates