netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: platform: Fix misleading interrupt error msg

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Date:   Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:00:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mklntf@...il.com
Cc:     peppe.cavallaro@...com, alexandre.torgue@...com,
        joabreu@...opsys.com, mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: platform: Fix misleading interrupt error
 msg

From: Markus Fuchs <mklntf@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:46:25 +0100

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 11:04:02PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Markus Fuchs <mklntf@...il.com>
>> Date: Fri,  6 Mar 2020 17:38:48 +0100
>> 
>> > Not every stmmac based platform makes use of the eth_wake_irq or eth_lpi
>> > interrupts. Use the platform_get_irq_byname_optional variant for these
>> > interrupts, so no error message is displayed, if they can't be found.
>> > Rather print an information to hint something might be wrong to assist
>> > debugging on platforms which use these interrupts.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Markus Fuchs <mklntf@...il.com>
>> 
>> What do you mean the error message is misleading right now?
>> 
>> It isn't printing anything out at the moment in this situation.
> 
> Commit 7723f4c5ecdb driver core: platform: Add an error message to 
>     platform_get_irq*()
> 
> The above commit added a generic dev_err() output to the platform_get_irq_byname
> function.
> 
> My patch uses the platform_get_irq_byname_optional function, which
> doesn't print anything and adds the original dev_err output as dev_info output 
> to the driver.
> Otherwise there would be no output at all even for platforms in need of these 
> irqs.

Aha, now I get it, thanks for explaining.

Applied, thank you.