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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>,
	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, thierry.reding@gmail.com,
	boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com, lgirdwood@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: pwm: suppress EPROBE_DEFER error message
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:29:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190123172912.GF7503@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afa9ed378b7fa62e81662363fdaf7543@codethink.co.uk>

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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:14:49PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
> On 2019-01-23 16:04, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This also cleans up the kernel log in the case where you've not got a
> > driver enabled that you need (or it's not loading for some reason) which
> > isn't super helpful when you're trying to figure out why the driver
> > won't probe.  There's not even anything at debug level, that would
> > probably be fine.

> > The ideal thing here would be to work on setting up the dependency
> > information based on DT and using that to try to sort initialization
> > order so we try things in an order that minimizes the number of failed
> > tries.

> Hmm, would it be useful to have a devfs file which holds the last probe
> code?

You really also want the bit that says why it's deferring - "failed to
get clock X" or whatever.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-23 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-21 18:37 [PATCH 0/1] pwm-regulator: reduce noise on EPROBE_DEFER Martin Blumenstingl
2019-01-21 18:37 ` [PATCH 1/1] regulator: pwm: suppress EPROBE_DEFER error message Martin Blumenstingl
2019-01-23 15:27   ` Anand Moon
2019-01-23 16:04   ` Mark Brown
2019-01-23 16:14     ` Ben Dooks
2019-01-23 17:29       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2019-01-21 19:18 ` [PATCH 0/1] pwm-regulator: reduce noise on EPROBE_DEFER Mark Brown
2019-01-21 20:55   ` Martin Blumenstingl

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