Re: [PATCH] spi: atmel-quadspi: Print the controller version and used irq

[Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/8/24 11:29 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 10:34:39AM +0100, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>> On 10/8/24 9:32 AM, Mihai Sain wrote:
> 
>>> Add support to print the controller version and used irq
>>> similar to other at91 drivers (spi, twi, usart).
> 
>>> +	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "AT91 QSPI Controller version %#x (irq %d)\n",
>>> +		 atmel_qspi_read(aq, QSPI_VERSION), irq);
> 
>> This pollutes the console. Better to add a dev_dbg if you care.
>> And irq number doesn't bring too much value as you can see it in dt,
>> isn't it?
> 
> The objective of bringing the various AT91 drivers into consistency does
> seem useful so if this isn't OK for this driver we should probably

right, consistency is good.

> update the other drivers as well.  Ensuring that people can get at the

Can be a goal. My point was that printing too much info in the boot log
may hide other more important information. Printing IP versions, irqs,
dma channels acquired (or worse, that a driver probed successful) shall
be part of debug prints if someone cares.

> IP version does feel useful, I guess it could also be a sysfs thing?

I'd also consider debugfs for IP version, it has less restrictions.

Mihai, do as you find best, it's just a suggestion.