On Sat, 13 Jul 2024, Luke D. Jones wrote: > 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 leaving the > user with a possibly unusable system - this is especially true for > laptops with an MCU that emit a stream of HID packets, some of which can > be misinterpreted as shutdown signals. > > 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 4c129881ce28..7d87ff68f418 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); Please don't print __func__ to user in warnings or errors, and try to write in English what is the reason (instead of resorting to use function names). -- i. > 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); >