From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: lpc_ich: one uninitialized cell is no error
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:35:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121163501.GB18738@sortiz-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353355451.19434.14.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
Hi Paul,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:04:11PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> At every boot of an (outdated) laptop lpc_ich prints an error:
> lpc_ich 0000:00:1f.0: I/O space for GPIO uninitialized
>
> But if one looks at lpc_ich's probe function one notices that the code
> only cares if both lpc_ich_init_wdt() and lpc_ich_init_gpio() fail to
> add any cells. So stop treating the failure to add a single cell as an
> error. Those messages can be printed at notice level. And then only warn
> if no cells were added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
> ---
> 0) This patch was written on top of v3.7-rc4 and tested on v3.6.7.
>
> 1) Please note that this patch prints a warning when no MFD cells are
> added at all. I didn't make that an error because I'm not sure there's
> anything one can do if this happens. Is there?
>
> drivers/mfd/lpc_ich.c | 11 ++++++-----
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
Cheers,
Samuel.
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2012-11-19 20:04 [PATCH] mfd: lpc_ich: one uninitialized cell is no error Paul Bolle
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