Commit 77419aa4 authored by Bastien Nocera's avatar Bastien Nocera Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: Fallback to generic driver when specific driver fails

If ->probe fails for a device specific driver, ask the driver core to
reprobe us, after having flagged the device for the generic driver to be
forced.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191016093933.693-6-hadess@hadess.netSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 88b7381a
......@@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ static int usb_probe_device(struct device *dev)
return error;
error = udriver->probe(udev);
/* TODO: fallback to generic driver in case of error */
if (error == -ENODEV && udriver != &usb_generic_driver) {
udev->use_generic_driver = 1;
return -EPROBE_DEFER;
}
return error;
}
......
......@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@ static int __check_usb_generic(struct device_driver *drv, void *data)
static bool usb_generic_driver_match(struct usb_device *udev)
{
if (udev->use_generic_driver)
return true;
/*
* If any other driver wants the device, leave the device to this other
* driver.
......
......@@ -708,6 +708,7 @@ struct usb_device {
unsigned lpm_disable_count;
u16 hub_delay;
unsigned use_generic_driver:1;
};
#define to_usb_device(d) container_of(d, struct usb_device, dev)
......
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