On some newer laptops ASUS laptops SPS support is advertised but not
actually used, causing the AMD driver to register as 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 fbb3345cc65a..d53c4aff519f 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
@@ -3876,8 +3876,13 @@ 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;
@@ -4752,7 +4757,7 @@ static int asus_wmi_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto fail_fan_boost_mode;
err = platform_profile_setup(asus);
- if (err)
+ if (err && err != -EEXIST)
goto fail_platform_profile_setup;
err = asus_wmi_sysfs_init(asus->platform_device);
--
2.46.0
