Re: [PATCH] lis33: turn down the no IRQ message

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:34:53AM -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:53:01 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:09:15AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > From: Kalhan Trisal <kalhan.trisal@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Turn down the no IRQ message - on some platforms that's a normal state of
> > > affairs.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kalhan Trisal <kalhan.trisal@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Wondering - pr_err was too strong, but maybe pr_info would make sense
> > to inform the user that /dev/freefall won't work. Otherwise we may get
> > support requests with people complaining about it, and we won't be able
> > to see the reason.
> > 
> > Thoughts ?
> 
> The comment says: "on some platforms that's a normal state of affairs".
> So it's down to: can there be other reasons to the missing IRQ than
> these platforms where we expect it? If not, then pr_debug() is right.
> If there is, then we need separate messages for the expected and
> unexpected cases.
> 
I don't think there can be other reasons, unless there is a bug somewhere,
which of course is always possible. Only reason for bringing it up was that
someone had complained about the missing /dev/freefall a couple of months ago.

Anyway, since Eric is fine with pr_debug, let's stick with it.

Guenter

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