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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm: irq: l2c: do not print error in case of missing l2c from dtb
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Hello,

On 2016-01-12 08:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 15:34 +0900, Andi Shyti wrote:
>> In some architectures the L2 cache controller is integrated in the
>> processor's block itself and it doesn't use any external cache
>> controller. This means that an entry in the board's dtb related
>> to the l2c is not necessary.
>>
>> Distinguish between error codes and print just an information in
>> case of -ENODEV.
> trivia:
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/irq.c b/arch/arm/kernel/irq.c
> []
>> @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ void __init init_IRQ(void)
>> outer_cache.write_sec = machine_desc->l2c_write_sec;
>> ret = l2x0_of_init(machine_desc->l2c_aux_val,
>> machine_desc->l2c_aux_mask);
>> - if (ret)
>> + if (ret == -ENODEV)
>> + pr_info("no L2C controller entry found in the dtb\n");
> Perhaps this would be more consistent if it was
> pr_info("L2C: no controller entry found in the dtb\n");

Frankly I see no benefit of such message. It still might confuse users
that there
is something wrong with your DT. When driver initialization fails with
-ENODEV,
then no message is usually displayed.

>> + else if (ret)
>> pr_err("L2C: failed to init: %d\n", ret);
>> }
>>
>
>

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland

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