On Tue 10 Mar 04:55 PDT 2015, Mark Brown wrote: > Currently probe deferral prints a message every time a device requests > deferral at info severity (which is displayed by default). This can have > an impact on system boot times with serial consoles and is generally quite > noisy. > > Since subsystems and drivers should already be logging the specific reason > for probe deferral in order to aid users in understanding problems the > messages from the driver core should be redundant lower the severity of > the messages printed, cutting down on the volume of output on the console. > > This does mean that if the drivers and subsystems aren't doing a good job > we get no output on the console by default. Ideally we'd be able to arrange > to print if nothing else printed, though that's a little fun. Even better > would be to come up with a mechanism that explicitly does dependencies so > we don't have to keep polling and erroring. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
I like it, much better than the suggestion I made to drop the more informative print out in the regulator framework. Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <[email protected]> Regards, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

