Commit bc7de897 authored Feb 27, 2019 by Matt Hsiao Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Feb 27, 2019

misc: hpilo: Exclude unsupported device via blacklist



Instead of having explicit if statements excluding devices,
use a pci_device_id table of devices to blacklist.

HPE will put out minor updates to the iLO using the same device
info except for the subsystem device id. hpilo driver takes the
approach to claim based upon {Vendor, Device, SubVendor} and it
allows old software to work on new hardware without patching.

As our primary way to support our customers is via distros, the
patching process could take months to go upstream and then
backported to multiple releases of multiple distros.

This approach worked fairly well as this is only the second time
in 10+ years that we need to blacklist an instance.

Signed-off-by: Matt Hsiao <matt.hsiao@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 9d49fff9

drivers/misc/hpilo.c

+9 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ static struct class *ilo_class;
		static unsigned int ilo_major;
		static unsigned int max_ccb = 16;
		static char ilo_hwdev[MAX_ILO_DEV];
		static const struct pci_device_id ilo_blacklist[] = {
		/* auxiliary iLO */
		{PCI_DEVICE_SUB(PCI_VENDOR_ID_HP, 0x3307, PCI_VENDOR_ID_HP, 0x1979)},
		{}
		};

		static inline int get_entry_id(int entry)
		{
		@@ -763,9 +768,10 @@ static int ilo_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
		int devnum, minor, start, error = 0;
		struct ilo_hwinfo *ilo_hw;

		/* Ignore subsystem_device = 0x1979 (set by BIOS) */
		if (pdev->subsystem_device == 0x1979)
		return 0;
		if (pci_match_id(ilo_blacklist, pdev)) {
		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Not supported on this device\n");
		return -ENODEV;
		}

		if (max_ccb > MAX_CCB)
		max_ccb = MAX_CCB;

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