Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] ASoC: samsung: Print a one-time message if the snow driver's probe defers

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:21:06PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> If the snd_soc_register_card() fails due a missing resource and the probe
> has to be deferred, the driver prints an error message.
> 
> But since many probe retries can happen before a resource is available,
> the printed messages can spam the kernel log buffer and slow the boot.
> 
> The information is useful to know that a dependency was not meet and a
> defer happened, but isn't necessary to print it on each probe deferral.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> 
>  sound/soc/samsung/snow.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/samsung/snow.c b/sound/soc/samsung/snow.c
> index d8ac907bbb0d..068bfb78a668 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/samsung/snow.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/samsung/snow.c
> @@ -103,7 +103,13 @@ static int snow_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	ret = devm_snd_soc_register_card(&pdev->dev, card);
>  	if (ret) {
> -		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "snd_soc_register_card failed (%d)\n", ret);
> +		if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			dev_err_once(&pdev->dev,
> +				     "snd_soc_register_card deferred (%d)\n",
> +				     ret);

dev_warn_once? I understand you didn't want to change the logic behind
this but this is not really an error condition. Probe deferral happens
and one should not be worried seeing it once in 'dmesg -l err'.

Another point is now we would miss different error condition - infinite
(or very long) probe deferral. I am not sure how useful it might be but
theoretically seeing many deferrals is a sign of something to fix.

Best regards,
Krzysztof