On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 01:04:51PM +0000, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 08:27:27AM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> > > This isn't useful to a user, especially as probing will run again.
> > > Use the dev_err_probe helper to hide the deferrerd probing messages.

> > The reason we have these error messages is that they are very useful to
> > users if they ever find that the device isn't instantiating due to some
> > missing dependency or something that leaves it stuck in probe deferral,
> > they give some hint as to what might be wrong.

> Right, but they should be at debugging level, if someone has a problem they
> turn on dynamic debugging for the module and then can see these messages.

Your commit message says that reporting the error isn't useful, I am
flagging that it is useful to have the messages be available to people.