Re: [PATCH] i2c: designware: Suppress error message if platform_get_irq() returns -EPROBE_DEFER

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 20:11 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > Yes, I was thinking even about some wrapper on top of platform_get_irq()
> > since it seems there are no messaging done inside platform.c, though
> > devm_* functions usually have it.
> 
> When I had a look a few months ago, the situation with devm_* was messy.
> Some rightfully printed errors, some rightfully didn't, some vice versa,
> some the other way around, and some did something else...
> 
> For driver authors, it is hard to see/remember which devm function does
> it and which doesn't. IMO a good cleanup will get rid of this mess. I
> started sketching something but especially clks and irqs are basically
> everywhere and so it easily grew out of the fun-time project scale,
> sadly.

Yeah, same for me. I've checked the situation with platform_get_irq()
and estimate the amount of drivers about 300.

That's why I discourage to create another one that needs to be fixed in
the future.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy

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