Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:11:39 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 4/5] drm/bridge/sii8620: fix resource acquisition error handling |
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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 03:43:10PM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote: > > On 24.06.2020 15:25, Mark Brown wrote:
> > If we silently ignore all deferred probe errors we make it hard for > > anyone who is experiencing issues with deferred probe to figure out what > > they're missing. We should at least be logging problems at debug level > > so there's something for people to go on without having to hack the > > kernel source.
> But you can always do:
> cat /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred
> And you will find there deferred probe reason (thanks to patch 2/5).
Right, my point is more that we shouldn't be promoting discarding the diagnostics entirely but rather saying that we want to redirect those somewhere else.
> Eventually if you want it in dmesg anyway, one can adjust probe_err function > to log probe error on debug level as well.
That would most likely be very useful as a boot option for problems that occur before we get a console up. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |