Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: initialise nsp-mux earlier.

[Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/11/2020 2:07 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:44 AM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 6/30/2020 9:37 PM, Mark Tomlinson wrote:
> 
>>> That was one of my thoughts too. I found someone had tried that
>>> earlier, but it was rejected:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-gpio/patch/1516566774-1786-1-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>
>> clk or reset APIs do not complain loudly on EPROBE_DEFER, it seems to me
>> that GPIO should follow here. Also, it does look like Linus was in
>> agreement in the end, not sure why it was not applied though.
> 
> I never got an updated patch. My last message was:
> 
>>> so you mean something like this?
>>>
>>> if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>>>         dev_info(dev, "deferring probe\n")
>>> else
>>>         dev_err(dev, "... failed to register\n")
>>
>> Yes exactly.
> 
> Patches welcome :D

Not sure how useful the dev_info(dev, "deferring probe\n") is nowadays
given that the device driver core will show which devices are on the
probe deferral list, maybe we can turn this into a dev_dbg() instead?
-- 
Florian