linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 17/22] rtc: pm8xxx: add support for nvmem offset

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Message-ID: <Y+JwBkhc/WbkFq25@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2023 16:36:38 +0100
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     David Collins <quic_collinsd@...cinc.com>
Cc:     Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 17/22] rtc: pm8xxx: add support for nvmem offset

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 07:16:54PM -0800, David Collins wrote:
> On 2/2/23 07:54, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > +static int pm8xxx_rtc_read_nvmem_offset(struct pm8xxx_rtc *rtc_dd)
> > +{
> > +	size_t len;
> > +	void *buf;
> > +	int rc;
> > +
> > +	buf = nvmem_cell_read(rtc_dd->nvmem_cell, &len);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
> > +		rc = PTR_ERR(buf);
> > +		dev_dbg(rtc_dd->dev, "failed to read nvmem offset: %d\n", rc);
> 
> Why is dev_dbg() used instead of dev_err() for newly added error
> messages?  Also, why do these conditions warrant error logging when some
> of the previous patches in this series removed older error logging?

I would have used dev_err() here and did so for v1, but Alexandre
prefers dev_dbg() for errors that are unlikely to be seen by regular
users but that can still be useful to developers (e.g. when enabling the
rtc on a new platform).

One or two of the spmi errors I removed falls in the same category in so
far that the control and time registers may write-protected on some
platforms, but such errors are currently logged by the spmi controller
driver.

Johan