[PATCH v2] ASoC: samsung: Silence warnings during deferred probe

Krzysztof Kozlowski krzk at kernel.org
Fri Feb 28 18:45:33 CET 2020


On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 17:12, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:11:20AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>
> > Don't confuse user with meaningless warning about the failure in getting
> > resources and registering card in case of deferred probe.
>
> >       if (ret) {
> > -             dev_err(&pdev->dev, "snd_soc_register_card() failed: %d\n", ret);
> > +             if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +                     dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> > +                             "snd_soc_register_card() failed: %d\n", ret);
>
> This is completely removing the diagnostics so if things do get stuck
> the user will generally not have any hint as to what's going wrong -
> it's better with this sort of change to lower to dev_dbg() for deferral
> rather than completely removing the error message so the user has some
> ability to figure out what was missing.  However in this case it's also
> the case that snd_soc_register_card() is fairly noisy.

This dev_dbg could be achieved with ftrace for probe() as well. I
think it is quite common to skip all messages for deferred probes.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


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