Re: [PATCH 7/8] ASoC: topology: suppress probe deferral errors

Johan Hovold
2023-07-10T12:01:17Z

On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 09:25:26AM +0200, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
> On 7/6/2023 8:14 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > In short, it is not correct to use dev_err_probe() here as this is not a
> > probe function.
> >
> > dev_err_probe() is tied to driver core and will specifically allocate
> > and associate an error message with the struct device on probe
> > deferrals, which is later freed when the struct device is bound to a
> > driver (or released).

> I guess you mean call to: device_set_deferred_probe_reason(dev, &vaf);
> perhaps functionality could be extended to allow to skip this call and
> just do prints? Or just add separate dev_err_defer function without this
> step, although it would be best if they could share parts of code.

Feel free to suggest adding such a function if you think it's
worthwhile. It doesn't exist today it should not be a prerequisite for
suppressing these error messages.

Johan