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Date:   Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:39:05 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: pwm: Don't warn on probe deferral
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 05:17:57PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 04:58:59PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This then means that there's no way for users to determine why the
> > driver has failed to instantiate which can be frustrating.  It'd be
> > better to at least have some dev_dbg() output when deferring so that
> > there's something for people to go on without having to instrument the
> > code.

> Not printing an error message is quite usual however. I think a generic

Usual yet also frustraing.

> approach that for example makes the list of devices that should be
> retried to probe on the next opportunity inspectable would be nice.

That's not really the issue, the bigger issue is trying to figure out
why things are stuck - what exactly caused things to fail to
instantiate.

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