netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/8] mwifiex: don't print an error if an optional DT property is missing

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jun 2016 09:13:35 +1000
From:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxm@...vell.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@...vell.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] mwifiex: don't print an error if an optional DT
 property is missing

Hi Javier,

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@....samsung.com> wrote:
> Hello Julian,
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback and reviews.
>
> On 06/01/2016 12:20 AM, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
>> <javier@....samsung.com> wrote:
>>> The Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.txt DT
>>> binding document say that the "interrupts" property in the child node is
>>> optional. So the property being missed shouldn't be treated as an error.
>>
>> Have you checked whether it is truly optional? I.e. nothing else
>> breaks if this property isn't set?
>>
>
> That's what the DT binding says and the IRQ is only used as a wakeup source
> during system suspend, it is not used during runtime. And that is why the
> mwifiex_sdio_probe_of() function does not fail if the IRQ is missing.

Awesome, that's what I wanted to know.

> Now, I just got to that conclusion by reading the binding docs, the message
> in the commits that introduced this and the driver code. Xinming Hu should
> comment on how critical this feature is for systems that needs to be wakeup.

Xinming, could you review this also?

> In any case I think that the code should be consistent with what the binding
> doc says and also the function does (i.e: dev_err only if returns an error).
>
>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
>>
>> Other than that, this looks sensible to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
>>
>
> Best regards,

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

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