Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: Don't log error message in case of -EPROBE_DEFER.

[Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>]

On 2020-11-04 14:15, Markus Bauer wrote:
> Remove error messages that might confuse users when error is just -517 / -EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> [...]
> imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: Cannot register the MDIO bus
> imx-dwmac 30bf0000.ethernet: stmmac_dvr_probe: MDIO bus (id: 0) registration failed
> [...]

FYI we have dev_err_probe() for this now.

Robin.

> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c | 7 ++++---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c | 6 ++++--
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> index 33272a12989a..7d1cdd576b91 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_main.c
> @@ -4857,9 +4857,10 @@ int stmmac_dvr_probe(struct device *device,
>   		/* MDIO bus Registration */
>   		ret = stmmac_mdio_register(ndev);
>   		if (ret < 0) {
> -			dev_err(priv->device,
> -				"%s: MDIO bus (id: %d) registration failed",
> -				__func__, priv->plat->bus_id);
> +			if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +				dev_err(priv->device,
> +					"%s: MDIO bus (id: %d) registration failed, err=%d",
> +					__func__, priv->plat->bus_id, ret);
>   			goto error_mdio_register;
>   		}
>   	}
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
> index 226e5a4bf21c..8e202f63da31 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_mdio.c
> @@ -401,8 +401,10 @@ int stmmac_mdio_register(struct net_device *ndev)
>   	new_bus->parent = priv->device;
>   
>   	err = of_mdiobus_register(new_bus, mdio_node);
> -	if (err != 0) {
> -		dev_err(dev, "Cannot register the MDIO bus\n");
> +	if (err) {
> +		if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			dev_err(dev,
> +				"Cannot register the MDIO bus, err=%d\n", err);
>   		goto bus_register_fail;
>   	}
>   
>