linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: remove error due to probe deferral

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Date:   Thu, 8 Aug 2019 13:44:37 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
Cc:     perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, lgirdwood@...il.com,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Stefan Agner <stefan.agner@...adex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: remove error due to probe deferral

On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
> From: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner@...adex.com>
> 
> Deferred probes shouldn't cause error messages in the boot log. Avoid
> printing with dev_err() in case EPROBE_DEFER is the return value.

No, they absolutely should tell the user why they are deferring so the
user has some information to go on when they're trying to figure out why
their device isn't instantiating.

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