[PATCH v2 0/2] Account for uncorrectable failures in probing

From: Mario Limonciello
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 12:49:26 EST


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(-)

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