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From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
	Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>,
	Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/2] usb: core: export the generic device driver's operations
Date: Sat,  7 Nov 2026 09:36:37 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50db3bea8dd8bbc09bd8a9c3b38f44d6523442eb.1794018128.git.jjc@jclark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1794018128.git.jjc@jclark.com>

Export usb_generic_driver_probe(), usb_generic_driver_disconnect(),
usb_generic_driver_suspend() and usb_generic_driver_resume(), and move
their declarations to include/linux/usb.h. This lets a driver whose
probe may return -EPROBE_DEFER leave generic_subclass unset and call
them itself, so that it can defer before the device is configured.

Say in the generic_subclass kerneldoc not to set it in that case.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
---
Changes in v5:
- Added Alan's Acked-by

Changes in v4:
- New patch

 drivers/usb/core/generic.c |  4 ++++
 drivers/usb/core/usb.h     |  6 ------
 include/linux/usb.h        | 10 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/generic.c b/drivers/usb/core/generic.c
index a48994e11ef3..53675d9fdb03 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/generic.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/generic.c
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ int usb_generic_driver_probe(struct usb_device *udev)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_generic_driver_probe);
 
 void usb_generic_driver_disconnect(struct usb_device *udev)
 {
@@ -271,6 +272,7 @@ void usb_generic_driver_disconnect(struct usb_device *udev)
 	if (udev->actconfig)
 		usb_set_configuration(udev, -1);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_generic_driver_disconnect);
 
 #ifdef	CONFIG_PM
 
@@ -301,6 +303,7 @@ int usb_generic_driver_suspend(struct usb_device *udev, pm_message_t msg)
 		usbfs_notify_suspend(udev);
 	return rc;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_generic_driver_suspend);
 
 int usb_generic_driver_resume(struct usb_device *udev, pm_message_t msg)
 {
@@ -320,6 +323,7 @@ int usb_generic_driver_resume(struct usb_device *udev, pm_message_t msg)
 		usbfs_notify_resume(udev);
 	return rc;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_generic_driver_resume);
 
 #endif	/* CONFIG_PM */
 
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.h b/drivers/usb/core/usb.h
index a9b37aeb515b..9f1e4d197695 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.h
@@ -50,12 +50,6 @@ extern int usb_get_bos_descriptor(struct usb_device *dev);
 extern void usb_release_bos_descriptor(struct usb_device *dev);
 extern int usb_set_configuration(struct usb_device *dev, int configuration);
 extern int usb_choose_configuration(struct usb_device *udev);
-extern int usb_generic_driver_probe(struct usb_device *udev);
-extern void usb_generic_driver_disconnect(struct usb_device *udev);
-extern int usb_generic_driver_suspend(struct usb_device *udev,
-		pm_message_t msg);
-extern int usb_generic_driver_resume(struct usb_device *udev,
-		pm_message_t msg);
 
 static inline unsigned usb_get_max_power(struct usb_device *udev,
 		struct usb_host_config *c)
diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
index 825f03b29067..4844f53e2fa8 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb.h
@@ -1301,7 +1301,8 @@ struct usb_driver {
  *	for devices bound to this driver.
  * @generic_subclass: if set to 1, the generic USB driver's probe, disconnect,
  *	resume and suspend functions will be called in addition to the driver's
- *	own, so this part of the setup does not need to be replicated.
+ *	own, so this part of the setup does not need to be replicated. Do not set
+ *	this if @probe may return -EPROBE_DEFER.
  *
  * USB device drivers must provide a name, other driver fields are optional.
  */
@@ -1375,6 +1376,13 @@ extern int __usb_register_device_driver(struct usb_device_driver *,
 			struct module *, const char *);
 extern void usb_deregister_device_driver(struct usb_device_driver *);
 
+extern int usb_generic_driver_probe(struct usb_device *udev);
+extern void usb_generic_driver_disconnect(struct usb_device *udev);
+extern int usb_generic_driver_suspend(struct usb_device *udev,
+		pm_message_t msg);
+extern int usb_generic_driver_resume(struct usb_device *udev,
+		pm_message_t msg);
+
 extern int usb_register_dev(struct usb_interface *intf,
 			    struct usb_class_driver *class_driver);
 extern void usb_deregister_dev(struct usb_interface *intf,
-- 
2.56.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-07  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-07  2:36 [PATCH v5 0/2] usb: misc: onboard_usb_dev: don't defer probing after the device is configured James Clark
2026-11-07  2:36 ` James Clark [this message]
2026-11-07  2:36 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] " James Clark

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