linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of: Reduce log level of of_phandle_iterator

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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:09:48 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc:     Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of: Reduce log level of of_phandle_iterator_next()

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 10:00 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> These error messages are mostly useful for debugging malformed device
> tree data.

A malformed DT is an error, no?

> So change these messages from error to debug messages to
> avoid spamming the end user. Any error messages that might actually be
> useful to the user is probably going to come from the caller of these
> APIs. So leave it to them to decide if they need to print any error
> messages.

Generally that pattern results in every caller doing their own message
which is the wrong way around IMO. And recent patches fix some of
those cases[1].

Rob

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/30/41