Re: [PATCH v3] coreboot_table: skip failing entries instead of aborting populate
From: Tzung-Bi Shih
Date: Sat May 02 2026 - 21:44:05 EST
On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Titouan Ameline de Cadeville wrote:
> coreboot_table_populate() registers devices one by one. If
> device_register() fails for one entry, the current code returns
> immediately, leaving previously registered devices orphaned on the
> coreboot bus with no cleanup path.
>
> Since coreboot table entries are independent of each other, a failure
> on one entry should not prevent the others from being registered.
> This mirrors the strategy used by of_platform_populate(), which skips
> individual failures rather than aborting.
>
> [...]
Applied to
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrome-platform/linux.git for-firmware-next
[1/1] coreboot_table: skip failing entries instead of aborting populate
commit: 86e3bbc716332600e9e087f8a4889f4d9714a99c
Thanks!