From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] lis33: turn down the no IRQ message
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:22:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110125162230.GB8024@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110125150910.18731.92369.stgit@bob.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:19:20AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Basically though if dev->irq is not set it means there is no IRQ, and
> > > that isn't neccessarily an error.
> > >
> > Difference is developer knowledge (no irq) vs. user understanding. Sure, no irq
> > implies no freefall, and that is not an error. However, the user won't know that,
> > and thus might appreciate a note.
>
> Unfortunately what happens is the user of the case it's not an error gets
> a big scary message and panics thinking the device is broken.
>
Hmm ... ok, I'll accept that, and redirect any resulting support cases to you ;).
Guenter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 15:09 [lm-sensors] [PATCH] lis33: turn down the no IRQ message Alan Cox
2011-01-25 15:53 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-01-25 16:16 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-01-25 16:22 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2011-01-25 16:22 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-01-25 16:25 ` Éric Piel
2011-01-25 16:34 ` Jean Delvare
2011-01-25 16:35 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-01-25 16:41 ` Guenter Roeck
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