Re: [PATCH] spi: bcm2835: don't print error on clk_get() DEFER

[Jim Quinlan <james.quinlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 6:41 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 06:12:13PM -0500, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > Otherwise one may get multiple error messages for normal
> > operation of a clock provider.
>
> >       if (IS_ERR(bs->clk)) {
> >               err = PTR_ERR(bs->clk);
> > -             dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get clk: %d\n", err);
> > +             if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +                     dev_err(&pdev->dev, "could not get clk: %d\n", err);
>
> On the other hand if the clock isn't there and never appears then there
> won't be anything saying why the driver isn't loading which won't be
> helpful when trying to figure out what's going on.

Understood; I could do a dev_dbg() on -EPROBE_DEFER and dev_err() on
all other errors -- would that work for you?