Re: NAND: Add flags to the probe calls to control scan behaviour

[Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>]

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 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.

I was trying to avoid touching the 40+ drivers which use this
code. This would also be a bit of a code bloat as we would have
some interesting checks for the precise error code (was the failure
no-chip, no memory, some other problem?)

> Or can this be done using the chip->options ?

I will look into this.

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