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Message-ID: <1457982675.11972.119.camel@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:11:15 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>,
rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: s3c: Don't print an error on probe deferral
On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 16:05 -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The clock and source clock looked up by the driver may not be available
> just because the clock controller driver was not probed yet so printing
> an error in this case is not correct and only adds confusion to users.
>
> However, knowing that a driver's probe was deferred may be useful so it
> can be printed as debug information.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c
[]
> @@ -501,18 +501,27 @@ static int s3c_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> info->rtc_clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "rtc");
> if (IS_ERR(info->rtc_clk)) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to find rtc clock\n");
> - return PTR_ERR(info->rtc_clk);
> + ret = PTR_ERR(info->rtc_clk);
> + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to find rtc clock\n");
> + else
> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "probe deferred due rtc clock\n");
> + return ret;
> }
> clk_prepare_enable(info->rtc_clk);
>
> if (info->data->needs_src_clk) {
> info->rtc_src_clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "rtc_src");
> if (IS_ERR(info->rtc_src_clk)) {
> - dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> - "failed to find rtc source clock\n");
> + ret = PTR_ERR(info->rtc_src_clk);
> + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> + dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> + "failed to find rtc source clock\n");
> + else
> + dev_dbg(&pdev->dev,
> + "probe deferred due rtc source clock\n");
> clk_disable_unprepare(info->rtc_clk);
> - return PTR_ERR(info->rtc_src_clk);
> + return ret;
> }
> clk_prepare_enable(info->rtc_src_clk);
> }
Maybe the debug logging messages could be object->action like:
rtc clock probe deferred
rtc source clock probe deferred
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