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| author | Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> | 2019-10-16 11:39:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-12 11:01:55 -0800 |
| commit | 77419aa403ca1395f66e1e3de87743f54ba144b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 13b24674cf8e8151b59015ec90f003d696abafad /drivers/usb/core | |
| parent | 88b7381a939de0fa1f1b1629c56b03dca7077309 (diff) | |
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: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191016093933.693-6-hadess@hadess.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/usb/core/generic.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c index 9d1502a9571d..f81606c6a35b 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c @@ -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; } diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/generic.c b/drivers/usb/core/generic.c index 84da85c13825..4626227a6dd2 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/generic.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/generic.c @@ -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. |