Setup char device in spite of firmware handshake failure.
In order to provide host access to the firmware status registers and other
information required for the manufacturing process.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
---
V5: Rebase
V6: Rebase
V7: add Greg KH Reviewed-by
V8: Rebase
V9: Rebase
---
drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
index 0afae70e0609..cf427f6fdec9 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
@@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ static int mei_gsc_probe(struct auxiliary_device *aux_dev,
pm_runtime_set_active(device);
pm_runtime_enable(device);
- if (mei_start(dev)) {
- dev_err(device, "init hw failure.\n");
- ret = -ENODEV;
- goto err;
- }
+ /* Continue to char device setup in spite of firmware handshake failure.
+ * In order to provide access to the firmware status registers to the user
+ * space via sysfs.
+ */
+ if (mei_start(dev))
+ dev_warn(device, "init hw failure.\n");
pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(device, MEI_GSC_RPM_TIMEOUT);
pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(device);
--
2.32.0
