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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Simtec Linux Team <linux@simtec.co.uk>
Subject: Re: NAND: Add flags to the probe calls to control scan behaviour
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:06:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256040395.29856.228.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADC4137.1060204@simtec.co.uk>

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:36 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> I'd rather it be silent if it cannot find a device, as a number of our boards
> have slots where NAND devices may be fitted by the customer and as such all
> possibilities are registered with the NAND driver.
> 
> > Could you please elaborate why more why is this needed a bit more? What
> > is the driver?
> 
> Because customers get scared when errors with '!!!' turn up.

> > Why not to just remove that print at all?
> 
> Possible, but what about the case where there is a legitimate problem with
> the device that is supposed to be there.

I would go for this instead. I think the drivers can print an error
message themselves.

Or can this be done using the chip->options ?
-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-20 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13  9:00 NAND: Add flags to the probe calls to control scan behaviour Ben Dooks
2009-10-14 15:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-10-19 10:36   ` Ben Dooks
2009-10-20 12:06     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-10-20 13:11       ` Ben Dooks

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