usb: renesas-xhci: Prefer firmware loading on unknown ROM state
The recent attempt to handle an unknown ROM state in the commit d143825b ("usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state") resulted in a regression and reverted later by the commit 44cf5360 ("Revert "usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state""). The problem of the former fix was that it treated the failure of firmware loading as a fatal error. Since the firmware files aren't included in the standard linux-firmware tree, most users don't have them, hence they got the non-working system after that. The revert fixed the regression, but also it didn't make the firmware loading triggered even on the devices that do need it. So we need still a fix for them. This is another attempt to handle the unknown ROM state. Like the previous fix, this also tries to load the firmware when ROM shows unknown state. In this patch, however, the failure of a firmware loading (such as a missing firmware file) isn't handled as a fatal error any longer when ROM has been already detected, but it falls back to the ROM mode like before. The error is returned only when no ROM is detected and the firmware loading failed. Along with it, for simplifying the code flow, the detection and the check of ROM is factored out from renesas_fw_check_running() and done in the caller side, renesas_xhci_check_request_fw(). It avoids the redundant ROM checks. The patch was tested on Lenovo Thinkpad T14 gen (BIOS 1.34). Also it was confirmed that no regression is seen on another Thinkpad T14 machine that has worked without the patch, too. Fixes: 44cf5360 ("Revert "usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state"") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> BugLink: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189207 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210826124127.14789-1-tiwai@suse.deSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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