linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: msm

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Message-ID: <20160425213527.GH13149@codeaurora.org>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:35:27 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>
Cc:	Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
	David Brown <david.brown@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
	"linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ivan.ivanov@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: msm_serial add info message

On 04/25, Frank Rowand wrote:
>
> This is in msm_request_tx_dma().  I should have made the message
> "msm_serial: TX DMA not enabled\n" and added a similar message
> to msm_request_rx_dma().
> 
> Then it could print twice, once for TX and once for RX. :-)
> For my board it would print twice because both requests would
> fail for the same reason.

Ah right, the 3 line diff window caught me here.

> 
> Should I add it to msm_request_rx_dma() also, but make both
> locations dev_debug() instead of dev_info()?

Honestly I don't see much point in having this at all. Why does
the user care if DMA is used or not? Don't they just want the
hardware to work? Maybe dev_dbg(), but again, debug junk. I'll
leave it up to you and Greg.

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