On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 05:36:58PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 03:22:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > How do we know that it's not a kernel misconfiguration?  It's common for
> > people to not build some of the component drivers they need.

> Is what you described really a misconfiguration? Enabling debug when
> something does not work seems obvious thing to do, but okay, perhaps
> anything bellow error level would make me happy enough.

Yes, it's something that's really common when people configure their own
kernels.

> > > > If you don't like deferred probing please contribute to the efforts
> > > > to order probing.

> As a side note, which efforts are you reffering to here?

Things like Raphael's device dependencies work.

> > > I just tried to make it consistend to other subsystems where patches to
> > > silence deferred probing warnings are accepted...

> > Which subsystems are these?  We should look at fixing them...

> tty and usb for example. I do not consider wise to looking at them until
> this very subsystem gets fixed first to not distract ourselves ;-)
> (Also I have admit, that accepted patches hide error message on deferred
> probe only, but above occurs _also_ on deferred probe and yes, it would be
> nice to have that fixed)

This really does make it harder to figure out what's going on when the
dependency is actually missing - it transforms things into a silent
failure.