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From: Mark Brown <broonie-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König"
	<u.kleine-koenig-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Jon Hunter <jonathanh-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Thierry Reding
	<thierry.reding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-pwm-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: pwm: Don't warn on probe deferral
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:39:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200226163905.GH4136@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200226161757.idpzbs3jmayt7ya6-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 05:17:57PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 04:58:59PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This then means that there's no way for users to determine why the
> > driver has failed to instantiate which can be frustrating.  It'd be
> > better to at least have some dev_dbg() output when deferring so that
> > there's something for people to go on without having to instrument the
> > code.

> Not printing an error message is quite usual however. I think a generic

Usual yet also frustraing.

> approach that for example makes the list of devices that should be
> retried to probe on the next opportunity inspectable would be nice.

That's not really the issue, the bigger issue is trying to figure out
why things are stuck - what exactly caused things to fail to
instantiate.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-26 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-24 14:40 [PATCH] regulator: pwm: Don't warn on probe deferral Jon Hunter
     [not found] ` <20200224144048.6587-1-jonathanh-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2020-02-24 15:12   ` Thierry Reding
2020-02-24 16:58   ` Mark Brown
     [not found]     ` <20200224165859.GJ6215-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2020-02-26 16:17       ` Uwe Kleine-König
     [not found]         ` <20200226161757.idpzbs3jmayt7ya6-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2020-02-26 16:39           ` Mark Brown [this message]
     [not found]             ` <20200226163905.GH4136-GFdadSzt00ze9xe1eoZjHA@public.gmane.org>
2020-03-06  7:51               ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-03-06 12:35                 ` Mark Brown

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