On 2 September 2015 at 17:16, Vaibhav Hiremath <vaibhav.hiremath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 September 2015 08:37 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 18:37 +0530, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday 02 September 2015 02:07 AM, Joe Perches wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 00:54 +0530, Vaibhav Hiremath wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Return value would give clear information about the actual root-cause >>>>> of the failure. >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c >>>>> b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pxav3.c >>>>> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static int sdhci_pxav3_probe(struct platform_device >>>>> *pdev) >>>>> >>>>> ret = sdhci_add_host(host); >>>>> if (ret) { >>>>> - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to add host\n"); >>>>> + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to add host ret - %d\n", >>>>> ret); >>>>> goto err_add_host; >>>>> } >>>> >>>> >>>> If this is really desirable, there are many other callers of >>>> sdhci_add_host with error messages just like this one. >>>> >>> How about this? If you are ok, I can change it and submit the patch >>> again. >>> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c >> >> [] >>> >>> @@ -3176,8 +3176,11 @@ int sdhci_add_host(struct sdhci_host *host) >>> mmc->caps |= MMC_CAP_NEEDS_POLL; >>> >>> /* If there are external regulators, get them */ >>> - if (mmc_regulator_get_supply(mmc) == -EPROBE_DEFER) >>> + if (mmc_regulator_get_supply(mmc) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { >>> + pr_err("%s: regulator supply unavailable, deferring >>> probe. \n", >>> + mmc_hostname(mmc)); >>> return -EPROBE_DEFER; >>> + } >> >> >> (your email client has inappropriate line wrapping) >> >> The KERN_<LEVEL> here probably isn't right. >> >> Deferring isn't an error, at best it's a notification > > > I would consider it as an ERROR if it gets deferred > continuously/multiple times due to same reason. > >> and perhaps should be at pr_notice/KERN_NOTICE >> > > Yeah, KERN_NOTICE looks right here. > >> I don't know how often or how many times this deferral >> can occur. Do you? >> > > -EDEFER_PROBE usually means that driver has some dependency, > for which it has to wait. > In my case, during every boot, I pxav3_sdhci_probe gets deferred once > due to regulator unavailability. The driver core already prints a message on the debug level for -EDEFER_PROBE. Please don't do that in the driver as well. Kind regards Uffe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html