Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.20 148/304] Input: rotary-encoder - don't log EPROBE_DEFER to kernel log

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:24:05AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:41:05AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 0832e93632c61987d504e251b927a2be769dd21a ]
> >
> > When a driver fails to bind because a resource it still missing it's not
> > helpful to report this as (usually) probing is repeated later.
>
> I do not think that patch that merely suppresses a harmless warning in
> dmesg belongs in stable.

I'll drop it.

FWIW, my experience with users is that unexplained warnings in dmesg
sometimes end up being even more trouble than an actual bug :)

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Thanks,
Sasha