Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: remove error due to probe deferral

[Stefan Agner]

On 2019-08-08 14:44, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 02:36:55PM +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> From: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Deferred probes shouldn't cause error messages in the boot log. Avoid
>> printing with dev_err() in case EPROBE_DEFER is the return value.
> 
> No, they absolutely should tell the user why they are deferring so the
> user has some information to go on when they're trying to figure out why
> their device isn't instantiating.

Hm, I see, if the driver defers and does not manage in the end, then the
messages are indeed helpful.

But can we lower severity, e.g. to dev_info? In my case it succeeds in
the end, just defers about 6 times. I have 3 links which then leads to
18 error messages which confuse users... From what I can see
soc_init_dai_link() would print dev_err in case there is an actual
error.

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Stefan