On some newer laptops it appears that an AMD driver can register a
platform_profile handler. If this happens then the asus_wmi driver would
error with -EEXIST when trying to register its own handler.
We can safely continue loading the driver instead of bombing out.
Signed-off-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
index adc841abbb2a..999cd658ec8b 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
@@ -3836,8 +3836,13 @@ static int platform_profile_setup(struct asus_wmi *asus)
asus->platform_profile_handler.choices);
err = platform_profile_register(&asus->platform_profile_handler);
- if (err)
+ if (err == -EEXIST) {
+ pr_warn("%s, a platform_profile handler is already registered\n", __func__);
+ return 0;
+ } else if (err) {
+ pr_err("%s, failed at platform_profile_register: %d\n", __func__, err);
return err;
+ }
asus->platform_profile_support = true;
return 0;
@@ -4713,7 +4718,7 @@ static int asus_wmi_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
throttle_thermal_policy_set_default(asus);
err = platform_profile_setup(asus);
- if (err)
+ if (err && err != -EEXIST)
goto fail_platform_profile_setup;
err = asus_wmi_sysfs_init(asus->platform_device);
--
2.45.1
