Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] i3c: master: Add driver for Cadence IP
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Przemyslaw Sroka <psroka@cadence.com>,
        Arkadiusz Golec <agolec@cadence.com>,
        Alan Douglas <adouglas@cadence.com>,
        Bartosz Folta <bfolta@cadence.com>, Damian Kos <dkos@cadence.com>,
        Alicja Jurasik-Urbaniak <alicja@cadence.com>,
        Cyprian Wronka <cwronka@cadence.com>,
        Suresh Punnoose <sureshp@cadence.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
        Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
        Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk>,
        Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vitor Soares <Vitor.Soares@synopsys.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:10:06 -0800
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On 12/14/2017 12:44 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:25:14 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/14/2017 12:17 PM, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>>>>> +	events.events = I3C_CCC_EVENT_HJ | I3C_CCC_EVENT_MR;
>>>>> +	ret = i3c_master_enec_locked(m, I3C_BROADCAST_ADDR, &events);
>>>>> +	if (ret)
>>>>> +		pr_info("Failed to re-enable H-J");    
>>>> 		Not very good info...  
>>> What do you mean? Is it the H-J that bothers you (I can replace it by
>>> 'Hot-Join'), or is it something else?  
>>
>> Who is the message for?  If it's for developers, you could use
>> pr_debug().  If it's for users, it needs more clarity.
> 
> I think it's of interest to anyone including users. If we fail to
> re-enable Hot-Join that means hotplug is no longer working which is
> a bad news.
> 
>>
>> Does it print the source of the message? (module name e.g.)
> 
> I could replace it by
> 
> 	dev_err(m->parent, "Failed to re-enable Hot-Join");
> 

Yes, that's a good plan.

Thanks.

> 
> 
>> and yes, Hot-Join would be better IMO.


-- 
~Randy