linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: wm8994: Silence warnings during deferred probe

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Message-ID: <20200428111413.GD5677@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:14:13 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
        Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: wm8994: Silence warnings during deferred probe

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:36:38AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This completely eliminates the diagnostics which means that if the clock
> > isn't there the user is a bit stuck trying to work out what's missing.
> > There should still be a diagnostic.

> The driver won't defer forever though.  The final pass should fail
> with a different error.  At which point the error will be released to
> the system log, no?

One of the really common cases is that someone forgot to build the
driver for the dependency so it'll just defer forever waiting for
something that never loads.

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