From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@siol.net>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:DRM DRIVERS" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>,
Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>,
Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
linux-arm Mailing List <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 1/5] driver core: add probe_err log helper
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:45:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75Ve9V1Vyxe3bEeHJ9H2J900wUXHMmXFJt-dn9sO5OMejHA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200624132714.GD5472@sirena.org.uk>
On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 4:27 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:41:23PM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for error
> > printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error. This
>
> As I said down the thread that's not a great pattern since it means that
> probe deferral errors never get displayed and users have a hard time
> figuring out why their driver isn't instantiating.
Don't we have a file in the debugfs to list deferred drivers?
In the case of deferred probes the errors out of it makes users more
miserable in order to look through tons of spam and lose really useful
data in the logs.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20200624114134eucas1p2799e0ae76fcb026a0e4bcccc2026b732@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-06-24 11:41 ` [RESEND PATCH v5 0/5] driver core: add probe error check helper Andrzej Hajda
[not found] ` <CGME20200624114135eucas1p26e2e4683d60cebdce7acd55177013992@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-06-24 11:41 ` [RESEND PATCH v5 1/5] driver core: add probe_err log helper Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 11:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-06-24 12:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-24 13:23 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-06-24 14:04 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 13:27 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-24 13:45 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2020-06-24 14:02 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-24 15:00 ` Robin Murphy
2020-06-24 15:28 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <CGME20200624114136eucas1p1a3a31d95d86754201c7965f26ccd5de0@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-06-24 11:41 ` [RESEND PATCH v5 2/5] driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 12:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-06-24 13:28 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 12:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-24 13:26 ` Andrzej Hajda
[not found] ` <CGME20200624114136eucas1p1c84f81b1d78e2dbad7ac1b762f0a4b4f@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-06-24 11:41 ` [RESEND PATCH v5 3/5] drivers core: allow probe_err accept integer and pointer types Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 12:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-06-24 14:44 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 14:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-06-24 12:30 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-24 14:48 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 12:37 ` Robin Murphy
2020-06-24 12:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-24 14:25 ` Robin Murphy
2020-06-24 15:04 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-24 15:16 ` Robin Murphy
2020-06-24 19:39 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-25 8:41 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-25 10:19 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 13:29 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-06-24 12:53 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-06-24 13:12 ` Andrzej Hajda
[not found] ` <CGME20200624114137eucas1p13599d33a0c4a9abf7708bf8c8e77264b@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-06-24 11:41 ` [RESEND PATCH v5 4/5] drm/bridge/sii8620: fix resource acquisition error handling Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 13:25 ` Mark Brown
2020-06-24 13:43 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 14:11 ` Mark Brown
[not found] ` <CGME20200624114138eucas1p262505da3ad1067720080d20209ff32de@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2020-06-24 11:41 ` [RESEND PATCH v5 5/5] drm/bridge: lvds-codec: simplify error handling code Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 13:33 ` Laurent Pinchart
2020-06-24 14:03 ` Andrzej Hajda
2020-06-24 21:18 ` Laurent Pinchart
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