Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.20 148/304] Input: rotary-encoder - don't log EPROBE_DEFER to kernel log

Sasha Levin
2019-01-28T19:08:57Z

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:24:05AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:41:05AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 0832e93632c61987d504e251b927a2be769dd21a ]
>>
>> When a driver fails to bind because a resource it still missing it's not
>> helpful to report this as (usually) probing is repeated later.
>
>I do not think that patch that merely suppresses a harmless warning in
>dmesg belongs in stable.

I'll drop it.

FWIW, my experience with users is that unexplained warnings in dmesg
sometimes end up being even more trouble than an actual bug :)

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Thanks,
Sasha