There's no real reason that subclassed USB drivers _need_ to define probe() since they might want to subclass for some other reason. Make it optional to define probe() if we're a generic_subclass. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - ("Don't force USB generic_subclass drivers to define ...") new for v2. drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c index f58a0299fb3b..1dc0c0413043 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -290,7 +290,10 @@ static int usb_probe_device(struct device *dev) * specialised device drivers prior to setting the * use_generic_driver bit. */ - error = udriver->probe(udev); + if (udriver->probe) + error = udriver->probe(udev); + else if (!udriver->generic_subclass) + error = -EINVAL; if (error == -ENODEV && udriver != &usb_generic_driver && (udriver->id_table || udriver->match)) { udev->use_generic_driver = 1; -- 2.43.0.rc2.451.g8631bc7472-goog