Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: asus-wmi: don't fail if platform_profile already registered

From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Mon Jul 29 2024 - 11:45:23 EST


On Sat, 13 Jul 2024, Luke D. Jones wrote:

> On some newer laptops it appears that an AMD driver can register 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 4c129881ce28..7d87ff68f418 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> @@ -3836,8 +3836,13 @@ 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);

Please don't print __func__ to user in warnings or errors, and try to
write in English what is the reason (instead of resorting to use function
names).

--
i.

> return err;
> + }
>
> asus->platform_profile_support = true;
> return 0;
> @@ -4713,7 +4718,7 @@ static int asus_wmi_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
> throttle_thermal_policy_set_default(asus);
>
> err = platform_profile_setup(asus);
> - if (err)
> + if (err && err != -EEXIST)
> goto fail_platform_profile_setup;
>
> err = asus_wmi_sysfs_init(asus->platform_device);
>