linux-kernel - [PATCH] of/address: Don't throw errors on absent ranges properties

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Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:58:23 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] of/address: Don't throw errors on absent ranges properties

The core always tries to translate any "reg" property to construct the platform
device names. This results in a pile of "OF: no ranges; cannot translate" errors
in dmesg whenever we expose things like i2c devices that cannot directly translate
to the MMIO space.

Turn this into a pr_debug instead

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
index f0541fd..bf1f79d 100644
--- a/drivers/of/address.c
+++ b/drivers/of/address.c
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ static int of_translate_one(struct device_node *parent, struct of_bus *bus,
 	 */
 	ranges = of_get_property(parent, rprop, &rlen);
 	if (ranges == NULL && !of_empty_ranges_quirk()) {
-		pr_err("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
+		pr_debug("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
 		return 1;
 	}
 	if (ranges == NULL || rlen == 0) {


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