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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:29:12 +0100
From:   Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@...obroma-systems.com>
To:     Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Quentin Schulz <foss+kernel@...il.net>
Cc:     Sandy Huang <hjc@...k-chips.com>,
        Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Mark Yao <markyao0591@...il.com>,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/rockchip: lvds: do not print error message when
 deferring probe

Hi Fabio,

On 11/17/23 20:27, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Hi Quentin,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM Quentin Schulz <foss+kernel@...il.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@...obroma-systems.com>
>>
>> This scary message may happen if the panel or bridge is not probed
>> before the LVDS controller is, resulting in some head scratching because
>> the LVDS panel is actually working, since a later try will eventually
>> find the panel or bridge.
>>
>> Therefore let's demote this error message into a debug message to not
>> scare users unnecessarily.
> ...
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_lvds.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_lvds.c
>> index f0f47e9abf5a..52e2ce2a61a8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_lvds.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_lvds.c
>> @@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ static int rockchip_lvds_bind(struct device *dev, struct device *master,
>>                  ret = -EINVAL;
>>                  goto err_put_port;
>>          } else if (ret) {
>> -               DRM_DEV_ERROR(dev, "failed to find panel and bridge node\n");
>> +               DRM_DEV_DEBUG(dev, "failed to find panel and bridge node\n");
>>                  ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> 
> What about using dev_err_probe() instead?

Either is fine by me, will send a v2 and DRM maintainers can decide for 
themselves before merging :)

Cheers,
Quentin