[PATCH] usb: usb251xb: remove duplicate status line on probe success

Marco Felsch m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Mon May 23 01:22:21 PDT 2022


On 22-05-23, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> Hello Marco,
> 
> On 23.05.22 10:00, Marco Felsch wrote:
> > Hi Ahmad,
> > 
> > On 22-05-23, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> >> A successful probe results in two lines logged:
> >>
> >>   usb251xb usb2514b0: Hub configuration was successful.
> > 
> > The configuration (and this line) can be skipped if you specify
> > "skip-config".
> > 
> >>   usb251xb usb2514b0: Hub probed successfully
> >>
> >> There is no case where the first line is printed, but not the other and
> >> they say about the same thing anyway, so drop the latter.
> > 
> > The config step can fail. What about lower down the log level for the
> > config step to dev_dbg() instead?
> 
> If the config step fails we will get an error message from driver core.
> A driver with skip-config doesn't do anything useful that warrants
> a probed successfully message, so I think it's safe to drop it.

Hm.. with skip-config the driver still brings the hub out of reset and
into a working state. Anyway just wanted to pointed out, that there are
use-cases where the message is not printed twice.

Regards,
  Marco



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