linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: dw: Add deferred controller registration support

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:06:12 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>
Cc:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: dw: Add deferred controller registration support

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 09:18:53PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> It's pretty possible to have the spi_register_controller() method
> returning -EPROBE_DEFER status in case, for instance, if the GPIOs used
> for the CS implementation aren't ready to be requested due to the
> corresponding platform devices still pending to be probed. Let's make sure
> the DW SSI driver won't print error message in that case by calling the
> dev_err_probe() function if the SPI-registration procedure exited with
> a non-zero status.

This isn't adding any new support, it's making the logging less verbose
- deferred probe worked perfectly fine without this patch.

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