linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: avoid error messages for deferred probing

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:32:44 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Andreas Kemnade <andreas@...nade.info>
Cc:     lgirdwood@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: core: avoid error messages for deferred
 probing

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:27:36PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:

> Noise like this happens on boot with regulators which can be bypassed
> when the supply is not probed. That looks too alarming and confusing.

...

> Handle such issues silently.

This means that if something is failing to probe due to deferral the
user has no diagnostics of any kind which would allow them to figure out
why that's happening.  Reducing the severity of the diagnostics might
make sense but completely removing them is going to frustrate people.

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