From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 930AC3845AA; Thu, 14 May 2026 10:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778755092; cv=none; b=Ricecf8eZFeQRIuxFhfpwZblrjsr2HD4gOeCld/Sb1t9ep6Fj0r8jYSVnzVoxdwxsinzXjrv0iwzo8qqOkxAfvraEkJYCHRkqwpluwHaPHPhHyAaQJE6OW8saLBoZacSo3rsKOq2YedEZZBff02EoGinFyhaswSJeijAXYs0waU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1778755092; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6KuqpnKj9sobxjDeqvX+sSPZ/QSHETFRdP4dGEBM9Kk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=IK1YD+gIhASAc6Sy4egXO+hOn3OpmObEJdQCKHqdD6VPvs0+T8LDH9e0nj85vKiv+ft7xSdpzxDmorICJEUHMkIgjsogLLYuoe0cdTA6LWSML2IOerOBkkkCtZD3L3WfF8o3aRccG/PWUqXgta07Qzg6IdaM5Tq/NfOk2TvNrWo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=CP2+Q6k+; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="CP2+Q6k+" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D05ABC2BCB3; Thu, 14 May 2026 10:38:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1778755092; bh=6KuqpnKj9sobxjDeqvX+sSPZ/QSHETFRdP4dGEBM9Kk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=CP2+Q6k+vOdNmZMCBg/czK3/XTzKq0VLFIDXnQfI8q1f+VEZYn5dEFbuxpbhMVrKZ LcDgW9pgW31NqQNAkn7M4q9P5MWsdEG75eNTJNuHXQu3VLIt8HrPHm/up/QrlZ3mY0 fzPYe8svCetFMPVLD/SM0Yi3iVTZb0iVGk8XokfoS+fbK6L+SHkBqDT/iorLvpG0GL PQ5KaPxmJRTwQgTrA9hbLpPyHj25xksmDOIASEbpj14sISdX9+X/KOJo2yX7u0wUjc feFwDC2Dyev2jez7STICOVKK3blTa65kRGL11nWgCmZE1UFBSxg9fUCpd+b1OWCmNb jxpZVrv2QQt9w== Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 11:38:06 +0100 From: Sudeep Holla To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Guenter Roeck , Andy Shevchenko , Alex Tran , Sudeep Holla , Jyoti Bhayana , Jonathan Cameron , David Lechner , Nuno =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E1?= , Andy Shevchenko , Cristian Marussi , Linus Walleij , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Philipp Zabel , Viresh Kumar , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arm-scmi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] scmi: Log client subsystem entity counts Message-ID: <20260514-finicky-acoustic-flounder-2dd405@sudeepholla> References: <20260513-scmi-client-probe-log-v1-0-00b47b1be009@oss.qualcomm.com> <1f2fb1de-ebc8-40ef-ac53-3348499295e3@roeck-us.net> <2026051441-agreed-suffice-bbe1@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2026051441-agreed-suffice-bbe1@gregkh> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 08:48:19AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 11:27:21AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On 5/13/26 11:02, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > +Greg (I believe the trend is to drop such messages and not add them [back]?) > > > > > > > Is there some common guidance on this ? I'd be all for dropping messages > > instead of adding them, but there seems to be a perpetual battle between > > people who want to log everything and people concerned about logging noise. > > As maintainer I always seem to be stuck between those two camps. > > When drivers work properly, they should be quiet. This patch series > adds a bunch of dev_info() calls, which is not ok. If a developer wants > to see extra messages, use the dev_dbg() infrastructure, or the tracing > infrastructure, both of which are there for this very reason. > I completely agree and tend to follow that. But I always assumed it was left to maintainers taste. > So yes, I agree with Andy, this series is not ok, don't make more noise > please. > I am now thinking if [1] was the one setting example for this series. I did ack it as I left it to the subsystem maintainer's choice(in this case author as well). -- Regards, Sudeep [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260304101457.7470-1-ulf.hansson@linaro.org/