linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/regulator/core.c: Don't print error on EPROBE

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Date:	Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:12:30 +0100
From:	Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@...ic.nl>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:	lgirdwood@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/regulator/core.c: Don't print error on EPROBE_DEFER

On 12/09/2014 05:14 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>If a regulator depends on another regulator that happens to be called
>>later, the kernel always prints a message like this:
>>   reg-fixed-voltage regulator_sd1: Failed to find supply vin
>>Since the deferral is not something fatal, nor even something the user
>>may need to be aware about, reduce the message to debug level.

Can we instead at least reduce it to WARN or INFO level then?

I have to explain over and over again that there's no problem when that 
message comes along ten times in a row. And it causes people to overlook 
the messages that really are errors.

-- 
Mike Looijmans
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