On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 13:28 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: <snip> > No, that's not quite it. > > Here's what should happen when the subclass driver is being probed: > First, call the generic_probe routine, and return immediately if that > fails. Then call the subclass driver's probe routine. If that gets > an > error, fail the probe call but tell the device core that the device > is > now bound to the generic driver, not to the subclass driver. So, something like that, on top of the existing patches? (I'm not sure whether device_driver_attach is the correct call to use here). - if (udriver->probe) - return udriver->probe(udev); - return 0; + if (!udriver->probe) + return 0; + error = udriver->probe(udev); + if (error == -ENODEV && + udrv != &usb_generic_driver) + return device_driver_attach(usb_generic_driver.drvwrap.driver, dev); + return error; Anything else in this patch series? I was concerned about the naming for "generic_init" in patch 2 ("subclass"). If there's nothing, I'll test and respin the patchset with the above changes tomorrow. Cheers