linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization order based on the DT)

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Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 19:53:58 +0200
From:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
To:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jon Loeliger <jdl@....com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization
 order based on the DT)

Am 14.05.2014 19:45, schrieb Alexander Holler:

> One of the biggest problem of the deferred probe stuff is the problem
> how to identify real problems if everything ends up with a deferred
> probe when an error occurs? That means if you display an error whenever
> something is deferred, the log becomes almost unreadable. If you don't
> display an error, you never will see an error. And how do you display
> the real error when deferred probes finally do fail? The deferred probe
> stuff doesn't has any information about the underlying error, so it
> can't display it.

And that is a real problem. I've recently tried to identify why a driver 
failed and it was a nightmare because nothing offered any message (debug 
or not) when a probe was deferred. So I had to insert tons of printks to 
walk upwards to find the finally place where the probe failed. 
Everything afterwards just has forwarded the -EPROBE_DEFER without 
printing any message.

Regards,

Alexander Holler


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