Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: msm_serial add info message

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On 4/25/2016 2:35 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 04/25, Frank Rowand wrote:
>>
>> This is in msm_request_tx_dma().  I should have made the message
>> "msm_serial: TX DMA not enabled\n" and added a similar message
>> to msm_request_rx_dma().
>>
>> Then it could print twice, once for TX and once for RX. :-)
>> For my board it would print twice because both requests would
>> fail for the same reason.
> 
> Ah right, the 3 line diff window caught me here.
> 
>>
>> Should I add it to msm_request_rx_dma() also, but make both
>> locations dev_debug() instead of dev_info()?
> 
> Honestly I don't see much point in having this at all. Why does
> the user care if DMA is used or not? Don't they just want the
> hardware to work? Maybe dev_dbg(), but again, debug junk. I'll
> leave it up to you and Greg.

If the user doesn't care if DMA is used then why even bother
implementing it in the driver?  :-)

I don't _need_ the messages, I just need the driver to quit
dropping bytes and writing corrupt bytes.  So patch 1 of 2 is
sufficient for my needs.

-Frank

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