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Message-ID: <30ea2ed5bcc7e9c97d132ea30a8dd774@walle.cc>
Date:   Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:25:16 +0200
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: felix: suppress -EPROBE_DEFER errors

Am 2022-04-07 16:12, schrieb Vladimir Oltean:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 04:04:20PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>> Am 2022-04-07 15:56, schrieb Vladimir Oltean:
>> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
>> > > Due to missing prerequisites the probe of the felix switch might be
>> > > deferred:
>> > > [    4.435305] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Failed to register DSA
>> > > switch: -517
>> > >
>> > > It's not an error. Use dev_err_probe() to demote the error to a debug
>> > > message. While at it, replace all the dev_err()'s in the probe with
>> > > dev_err_probe().
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
>> > > ---
>> >
>> > Please limit the dev_err_probe() to dsa_register_switch(). The resource
>> > that is missing is the DSA master, see of_find_net_device_by_node().
>> > The others cannot possibly return -EPROBE_DEFER.
>> 
>> This was my rationale (from the function doc):
>> 
>>  * Note that it is deemed acceptable to use this function for error
>>  * prints during probe even if the @err is known to never be 
>> -EPROBE_DEFER.
>>  * The benefit compared to a normal dev_err() is the standardized 
>> format
>>  * of the error code and the fact that the error code is returned.
>> 
>> In any case I don't have a strong opinion.
> 
> Take this case:
> 
>  		err = -ENOMEM;
> -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to allocate driver memory\n");
> +		dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, err, "Failed to allocate driver 
> memory\n");
> 
> (1) there is no need to print ENOMEM if we say "failed to allocate 
> memory"

That was actually a brain fart of mine ;) But AFAIK there is no need in
reporting ENOMEM errors anyway.

-michael

> (2) we don't use the return value of dev_err_probe() anyway, we have
>     actual teardown to do (pci_disable_device).
> (3) we _surely_ know that -ENOMEM != -EPROBE_DEFER
>> 
>> > >
>> > > Should this be a patch with a Fixes tag?
>> >
>> > Whichever way you wish, no preference.
>> 
>> I'll limit it to just the one dev_err() and add a Fixes,
>> there might be scripts out there who greps dmesg for errors.
> 
> Ok.