netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] net: ipa: don't report EPROBE

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Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:11:25 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     elder@...nel.org, evgreen@...omium.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        cpratapa@...eaurora.org, subashab@...eaurora.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/5] net: ipa: don't report EPROBE_DEFER error

On 11.02.2021 22:19, Alex Elder wrote:
> When initializing the IPA core clock and interconnects, it's
> possible we'll get an EPROBE_DEFER error.  This isn't really an
> error, it's just means we need to be re-probed later.
> 
> Check the return code when initializing these, and if it's
> EPROBE_DEFER, skip printing the error message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ipa/ipa_clock.c | 12 ++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_clock.c b/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_clock.c
> index 354675a643db5..238a713f6b604 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_clock.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_clock.c
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  
>  /* Copyright (c) 2012-2018, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
> - * Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Linaro Ltd.
> + * Copyright (C) 2018-2021 Linaro Ltd.
>   */
>  
>  #include <linux/refcount.h>
> @@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ static int ipa_interconnect_init_one(struct device *dev,
>  	if (IS_ERR(path)) {
>  		int ret = PTR_ERR(path);
>  
> -		dev_err(dev, "error %d getting %s interconnect\n", ret,
> -			data->name);
> +		if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			dev_err(dev, "error %d getting %s interconnect\n", ret,
> +				data->name);
>  

You may want to use dev_err_probe() here.

>  		return ret;
>  	}
> @@ -281,7 +282,10 @@ ipa_clock_init(struct device *dev, const struct ipa_clock_data *data)
>  
>  	clk = clk_get(dev, "core");
>  	if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
> -		dev_err(dev, "error %ld getting core clock\n", PTR_ERR(clk));
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(clk);
> +		if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			dev_err(dev, "error %d getting core clock\n", ret);
> +
>  		return ERR_CAST(clk);
>  	}
>  
>