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From: Bin Liu <b-liu@ti.com>
To: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Alexandre Bailon <abailon@baylibre.com>,
	<linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: musb: da8xx: Don't print phy error on -EPROBE_DEFER
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:42:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161103154217.GA13361@uda0271908> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161102214559.GA2338@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 10:45:59PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 02:02:50PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > This suppresses printing the error message "failed to get phy" in the
> > kernel log when the error is -EPROBE_DEFER. This prevents usless noise
> > in the kernel log.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.c b/drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.c
> > index 481d786..f8a1591 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.c
> > @@ -516,7 +516,8 @@ static int da8xx_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  
> >  	glue->phy = devm_phy_get(&pdev->dev, "usb-phy");
> >  	if (IS_ERR(glue->phy)) {
> > -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get phy\n");
> > +		if (PTR_ERR(glue->phy) != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to get phy\n");
> 
> What about something like this?
> 
> dev_printk(PTR_ERR(glue->phy) == -EPROBE_DEFER ? KERN_DEBUG : KERN_ERR, ...
> 
> At least it outputs something if debug is enabled, making debugging easier.

It is unnecessary, when probe failed, kernel prints a probe failure log
with error -517, and da8xx_probe() has only this one place returning
-EPROBE_DEFER.

And this change makes the code a little hard to read.

Regards,
-Bin.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-03 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-25 19:02 [PATCH] usb: musb: da8xx: Don't print phy error on -EPROBE_DEFER David Lechner
2016-11-01 19:44 ` Bin Liu
2016-11-02 21:45 ` Ladislav Michl
2016-11-03 15:42   ` Bin Liu [this message]

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