From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario Limonciello Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Account for uncorrectable failures in probing Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 11:49:08 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from esa5.dell-outbound.iphmx.com ([68.232.153.95]:52654 "EHLO esa5.dell-outbound.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751066AbdKIRtT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 12:49:19 -0500 Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: dvhart@infradead.org, Andy Shevchenko Cc: LKML , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, pali.rohar@gmail.com, Mario Limonciello Pali raised some concerns around corner case scenarios that probing may fail on dell-wmi-descriptor causing dell-wmi and dell-smbios-wmi to be stuck in infinite deferred probing loops. This patch series accounts for that corner case. changes from v1 to v2: - Add Reviewed by from Pali for patch 1 - Move wmi_has_guid check into dell-wmi-descriptor.c instead of dependent drivers. Mario Limonciello (2): platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: check if memory was allocated platform/x86: dell-*wmi*: Relay failed initial probe to dependent drivers drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios-wmi.c | 5 +++-- drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-descriptor.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-descriptor.h | 8 +++++++- drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c | 6 ++++-- 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.14.1