Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/regulator/core.c: Don't print error on EPROBE_DEFER

Mike Looijmans
2014-12-09T18:21:48Z

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.

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Mike Looijmans