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Commit 2c675b8a authored by Mark Brown's avatar Mark Brown Committed by Prasad Sodagudi
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driver core: Make probe deferral more quiet



Currently probe deferral prints a message every time a device requests
deferral at info severity (which is displayed by default). This can have
an impact on system boot times with serial consoles and is generally quite
noisy.

Since subsystems and drivers should already be logging the specific reason
for probe deferral in order to aid users in understanding problems the
messages from the driver core should be redundant lower the severity of
the messages printed, cutting down on the volume of output on the console.

This does mean that if the drivers and subsystems aren't doing a good job
we get no output on the console by default. Ideally we'd be able to arrange
to print if nothing else printed, though that's a little fun. Even better
would be to come up with a mechanism that explicitly does dependencies so
we don't have to keep polling and erroring.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Git-commit: 13fcffbbdec4e4863a9a9c7792b821cd6d363a8f
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


Change-Id: Ibae0e022edf79c35aa23d2a3f0a9c4232db19d43
Signed-off-by: default avatarPrasad Sodagudi <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
parent 1c2c6d7f
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