On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 09:16, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Jun 2019, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > > > On Tue 04 Jun 03:44 PDT 2019, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > > The Qualcomm Geni I2C driver currently probes silently which can be > > > confusing when debugging potential issues. Add a low level (INFO) > > > print when each I2C controller is successfully initially set-up. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> > > > --- > > > drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c | 2 ++ > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c > > > b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c > > > index 0fa93b448e8d..e27466d77767 100644 > > > --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c > > > +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c > > > @@ -598,6 +598,8 @@ static int geni_i2c_probe(struct platform_device > > > *pdev) > > > return ret; > > > } > > > > > > + dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Geni-I2C adaptor successfully added\n"); > > > + > > > > I would prefer that we do not add such prints, as it would be to accept > > the downstream behaviour of spamming the log to the point where no one > > will ever look through it. > > We should be able to find a middle ground. Spamming the log with all > sorts of device specific information/debug is obviously not > constructive, but a single liner to advertise that an important > device/controller has been successfully initialised is more helpful > than it is hinderous. > > This print was added due to the silent initialisation costing me > several hours of debugging ACPI device/driver code (albeit learning a > lot about ACPI as I go) just to find out that it was already doing the > right thing - just very quietly. >
I agree. There are numerous EHCI drivers IIRC which, if compiled in, unconditionally print some blurb, whether you have the hardware or not, which is pretty annoying. In this case, however, having a single line per successfully probed device (containing the dev_name and perhaps the MMIO base address or some other identifying feature) is pretty useful, and shouldn't be regarded as log spamming imo. dev_info() honours the 'quiet' kernel command line parameter, and so you will only see the message if you actually look at the log.
