Re: [PATCH] i2c: designware: Suppress error message if platform_get_irq() returns -EPROBE_DEFER

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 18:46 +0100, Christian Ruppert wrote:
> On 2015-03-03 18:21, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > 
> >> which omit this type of messages completely. Andy's proposal of 
> >> centralising this looks like a very good solution here (and on
> >> top of that removes many useless strings from the kernel
> >> binary).
> > 
> > I am all for centralizing printouts. I recommended this at my ELCE
> > talk last year, too. However, you need to keep in mind that irqs
> > are sometimes optional and you don't want error messages for those
> > irqs. IMO worthwhile, but not a low hanging fruit...
> 
> There is a lot of truth in that. Thus the initial dev_dbg() suggestion
> to go half way. I still think that Andy's proposal (or a variation
> thereof to catch the optional irqs case) should be the ultimate goal
> but I agree that this is more than a quick patch and that it's
> probably way out of scope here.

Yes, I was thinking even about some wrapper on top of platform_get_irq()
since it seems there are no messaging done inside platform.c, though
devm_* functions usually have it.


-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy

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