linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: hide errors when probing for a reverse display port

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:20:23 -0400
From:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, Todd Broch <tbroch@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: hide errors when probing for a
 reverse display port

On Jul 28 2015 or thereabouts, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:03:28PM -0400, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > We check the polarity of the attached dp, so it is normal to fail.
> > Do not send errors to the users.
> 
> if (probe) DRM_DEBUG else DRM_ERROR is fairly offensive.
> 
> It strikes me that you could make each of these functions report the
> failure to the caller (have the caller even do so error handling!) and
> as part of that have the caller report an error and so demote all of
> these to DRM_DEBUG_KMS().

Yes, sorry for that. I will change it to return an actual error code and
the error string if I still need to use these functions given Sivakumar
ideas. 

> 
> Who knows, actually doing some error handling may make monitor training
> more reliable! Or we may even get carried away and report the failure
> all the way back to userspace.

That would be a very good improvement indeed. But I can already tell you
that I will not do it by myself, I already have too much on my plate.
I'll do my share for this feature, but don't count on me for the whole
error handling rewrite :)

Cheers,
Benjamin

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