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> --- 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