linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v15 10/10] usb:dummy_hcd: Force FS device connection according to module parameter

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:45:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Tanya Brokhman <tlinder@...eaurora.org>
cc:	greg@...ah.com, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <balbi@...com>,
	<ablay@...eaurora.org>, 'open list' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v15 10/10] usb:dummy_hcd: Force FS device connection
 according to module parameter

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Tanya Brokhman wrote:

> > You might want to print out some kind of error message if the user
> > specifies is_super_speed = True and is_high_speed = False.
> > 
> 
> I thought about that as well. Even added it but removed at the last minute
> :) I encountered quite a few places in the code where some error message to
> the user is really needed but is missing

What other places?  There is very little the user has to do with 
dummy-hcd -- really nothing more than setting the module parameters.

>  so my impression was that it's best
> to keep the printks to a minimum. Isn't that the general approach? IMO, in
> this particular case informing the user isn't a "must". If you feel strongly
> about it I can add the message.

IMO the driver should print an error message and fail to load if there 
are contradictory module parameters.

Alan Stern

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