[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] ASoC: core: Do not print an actual error when deferring probe

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 05:53:49PM +0200, Alexander Stein wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 May 2016 16:20:28, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Oh, and the other thing about this which I should have mentioned is that
> > it applies to every single resource acquisition in the kernel - this
> > needs addressing at a global error rather than piecemeal.  Raphael was
> > intending to work on avoiding probe deferral in the first place by
> > sorting probe and there were also some proposals to have a helper for
> > printing error messages which would suppress the display of probe
> > deferral errors before the final run at late initcall.  Obviously the
> > second mechanism is substantially simpler to implement.

> I remember those patches a bit. But working with late initcall sound to me 
> this has no effect on probe deferral in drivers loaded by modules, no?

Correct, once you're using modules you're pretty much relying on
userspace sorting out the init ordering.
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