[alsa-devel] [PATCH] sound: soc-core: make kernel complaints on -EPROBE_DEFER dev_dbg

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Nov 9 16:22:09 CET 2016


On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 04:14:26PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 02:36:42PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > No, errors are errors and not displaying them just makes it harder for
> > people to debug things.  If you don't want to see errors just change
> > your system configuratiion to hide them.

> For sure I want to see all errors, but this is not hardware error nor
> kernel misconfiguration, so showing it to the user is a bit pointless.

How do we know that it's not a kernel misconfiguration?  It's common for
people to not build some of the component drivers they need.

> > If you don't like deferred probing please contribute to the efforts
> > to order probing.

> I just tried to make it consistend to other subsystems where patches to
> silence deferred probing warnings are accepted...

Which subsystems are these?  We should look at fixing them...

> 
> > Please use subject lines matching the style for the subsystem.  This
> > makes it easier for people to identify relevant patches.
> 
> I wasn't aware of it, sorry. Will fix it next time.
> 
> Best regards,
> 	ladis
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