From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
patches@opensource.cirrus.com, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>,
Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: wm8994: Silence warnings during deferred probe
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:15:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200429071553.GW3559@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428111413.GD5677@sirena.org.uk>
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:36:38AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > > This completely eliminates the diagnostics which means that if the clock
> > > isn't there the user is a bit stuck trying to work out what's missing.
> > > There should still be a diagnostic.
>
> > The driver won't defer forever though. The final pass should fail
> > with a different error. At which point the error will be released to
> > the system log, no?
>
> One of the really common cases is that someone forgot to build the
> driver for the dependency so it'll just defer forever waiting for
> something that never loads.
Need to find another way to identify these failures. There are 10's
if not 100's of cases of silently returning if -EPROBE_DEFER is
caught.
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
Linaro Services Technical Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-29 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20200427074841eucas1p10523e8e342a8fa2d7cdfb2bc4e25d485@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-04-27 7:48 ` [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Minor WM8994 MFD/codec fixes Marek Szyprowski
2020-04-27 7:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] mfd: wm8994: Fix driver operation if loaded as modules Marek Szyprowski
2020-04-28 10:37 ` Lee Jones
2020-05-22 8:06 ` Lee Jones
2020-04-27 7:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] mfd: wm8994: Fix unbalanced calls to regulator_bulk_disable() Marek Szyprowski
2020-04-28 10:37 ` Lee Jones
2020-05-22 8:07 ` Lee Jones
2020-04-27 7:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] mfd: wm8994: Silence warning about supplies during deferred probe Marek Szyprowski
2020-04-27 10:31 ` Charles Keepax
2020-05-22 8:07 ` Lee Jones
2020-04-27 7:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: wm8994: Silence warnings " Marek Szyprowski
2020-04-27 10:32 ` Charles Keepax
2020-04-27 11:22 ` Mark Brown
2020-04-28 10:36 ` Lee Jones
2020-04-28 11:14 ` Mark Brown
2020-04-29 7:15 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-04-29 9:56 ` Mark Brown
2020-05-22 7:57 ` [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Minor WM8994 MFD/codec fixes Marek Szyprowski
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20200429071553.GW3559@dell \
--to=lee.jones@linaro.org \
--cc=alsa-devel@alsa-project.org \
--cc=broonie@kernel.org \
--cc=ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com \
--cc=lgirdwood@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=m.szyprowski@samsung.com \
--cc=patches@opensource.cirrus.com \
--cc=s.nawrocki@samsung.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox