[PATCH v9 3/5] mei: gsc: setup char driver alive in spite of firmware handshake failure

[Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>]

Setup char device in spite of firmware handshake failure.
In order to provide host access to the firmware status registers and other
information required for the manufacturing process.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
---
V5: Rebase
V6: Rebase
V7: add Greg KH Reviewed-by
V8: Rebase
V9: Rebase
---
 drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
index 0afae70e0609..cf427f6fdec9 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 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);
-- 
2.32.0