From 77419aa403ca1395f66e1e3de87743f54ba144b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bastien Nocera Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:39:32 +0200 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Alan Stern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191016093933.693-6-hadess@hadess.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/driver.c') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3