From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752113AbaLISVs (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:21:48 -0500 Received: from smtp07.online.nl ([194.134.42.52]:34860 "EHLO smtp07.online.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752005AbaLISVq (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:21:46 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 552 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:21:45 EST Message-ID: <54873B8E.1060106@topic.nl> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:12:30 +0100 From: Mike Looijmans Organization: Topic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Brown CC: lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/regulator/core.c: Don't print error on EPROBE_DEFER References: <1418130764-22440-1-git-send-email-mike.looijmans@topic.nl> <20141209161420.GJ1934@sirena.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20141209161420.GJ1934@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Online-Scanned: by Cloudmark authority (on smtp07.online.nl) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/09/2014 05:14 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >>If a regulator depends on another regulator that happens to be called >>later, the kernel always prints a message like this: >> reg-fixed-voltage regulator_sd1: Failed to find supply vin >>Since the deferral is not something fatal, nor even something the user >>may need to be aware about, reduce the message to debug level. Can we instead at least reduce it to WARN or INFO level then? I have to explain over and over again that there's no problem when that message comes along ten times in a row. And it causes people to overlook the messages that really are errors. -- Mike Looijmans