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-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
index c474094645a0..c91bf440ea26 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
@@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ static int mei_gsc_probe(struct auxiliary_device *aux_dev,
pm_runtime_set_active(device);
pm_runtime_enable(device);
- if (mei_start(dev)) {
- dev_err(device, "init hw failure.\n");
- ret = -ENODEV;
- goto irq_err;
- }
+ /* Continue to char device setup in spite of firmware handshake failure.
+ * In order to provide access to the firmware status registers to the user
+ * space via sysfs.
+ */
+ if (mei_start(dev))
+ dev_warn(device, "init hw failure.\n");
pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(device, MEI_GSC_RPM_TIMEOUT);
pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(device);
@@ -97,7 +98,6 @@ static int mei_gsc_probe(struct auxiliary_device *aux_dev,
register_err:
mei_stop(dev);
-irq_err:
devm_free_irq(device, hw->irq, dev);
err: