ALSA: hda - Continue probing even if i915 binding fails

Currently snd-hda-intel driver aborts the probing of Intel HD-audio
controller with i915 power well management when binding with i915
driver via hda_i915_init() fails.  This is no big problem for Haswell
and Broadwell where the HD-audio controllers are dedicated to
HDMI/DP, thus i915 link is mandatory.  However, Skylake, Baytrail and
Braswell have only one controller and both HDMI/DP and analog codecs
share the same bus.  Thus, even if HDMI/DP isn't usable, we should
keep the controller working for other codecs.

For fixing this, this patch simply allows continuing the probing even
if hda_i915_init() call fails.  This may leave stale sound components
for HDMI/DP devices that are unbound with graphics.  We could abort
the probing selectively, but from the code simplicity POV, it's better
to continue in all cases.

Reported-by: Libin Yang <libin.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index fea198c58196..8a0af6770e1d 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx *chip)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SND_HDA_I915
                 err = hda_i915_init(hda);
                 if (err < 0)
-                        goto out_free;
+                        goto skip_i915;
                 err = hda_display_power(hda, true);
                 if (err < 0) {
                         dev_err(chip->card->dev,
@@ -1865,6 +1865,7 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx *chip)
 #endif
         }
 
+ skip_i915:
         err = azx_first_init(chip);
         if (err < 0)
                 goto out_free;