[PATCH 1/3] regulator: don't emit errors in {devm_}regulator_bulk_get when defering

[heiko@sntech.de (Heiko Stuebner)]

Am Dienstag, 10. M?rz 2015, 12:07:50 schrieb Mark Brown:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:22:06AM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> > When {devm_}regulator_get returns -EPROBE_DEFER the driver in question
> > will
> > try probing again at a later time. So don't spam the log with failure
> > messages as this is an expected result of probe ordering.
> > 
> > -			dev_err(dev, "Failed to get supply '%s': %d\n",
> > -				consumers[i].supply, ret);
> > +			if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +				dev_err(dev, "Failed to get supply '%s': %d\n",
> > +					consumers[i].supply, ret);
> 
> No, this is not good - you get a nice quiet boot even if the regulator
> does not appear which means people have no idea why the driver isn't
> loading.  That's not a good user experience, silent error handling is
> the main problem I see people running into trying to get their systems
> up and running these days.
> 
> Really deferred probe is just fundamentally noisy since it's
> intentionally tolerating errors like this and of course a lot of the
> noise comes from the deferral messages the core prints.

ok, I'll drop this one then