Re: [PATCH 1/1] regulator: pwm: suppress EPROBE_DEFER error message

[Ben Dooks]

On 2019-01-23 16:04, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 07:37:23PM +0100, Martin Blumenstingl wrote:
> > Suppress the "Failed to get PWM" error output if the actual error code
> > is EPROBE_DEFER. This makes the behavior of the pwm-regulator driver
> > consistent with what most other drivers do (which is: print all errors
> > except EPROBE_DEFER).
> >
> > An example where this cleans up the kernel log are the 32-bit Amlogic
> > Meson boards:
> > multi_v7_defconfig has CONFIG_REGULATOR_PWM=y and CONFIG_PWM_MESON=m.
>
> This also cleans up the kernel log in the case where you've not got a
> driver enabled that you need (or it's not loading for some reason) 
> which
> isn't super helpful when you're trying to figure out why the driver
> won't probe.  There's not even anything at debug level, that would
> probably be fine.
>
> The ideal thing here would be to work on setting up the dependency
> information based on DT and using that to try to sort initialization
> order so we try things in an order that minimizes the number of failed
> tries.

Hmm, would it be useful to have a devfs file which holds the last probe 
code?