linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] clk: add si5351 i2c common clock driver

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Message-ID: <514D7ED4.2030205@metafoo.de>
Date:	Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:07:16 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>,
	Dom Cobley <popcornmix@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Rabeeh Khoury <rabeeh@...id-run.com>,
	Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com>,
	Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@...e.fr>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] clk: add si5351 i2c common clock driver

On 03/21/2013 10:32 PM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>>> +
>>> +    dev_info(&client->dev, "registered si5351 i2c client\n");
>>> +
>>
>> That's just noise, imagine every driver would print such a line, your bootlog
>> would be scrolling for hours ;) I'd either remove it or make it dev_dbg
> 
> Actually, I understand not to have it, but if you don't want it you can still
> boot with "quiet", can't you? Having one single line that helps you see it has
> been probed helps a lot. But, I don't have a strong opinion on that and can
> make it dev_dbg.

It is useful during development, but in my opinion only as long as not every
other driver does this as well. If you want to check whether a device has
been probed you can easily do this by checking the drivers sysfs node.

- Lars
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