Re: [PATCH 7/8] mwifiex: don't print an error if an optional DT property is missing

From: Julian Calaby
Date: Wed Jun 01 2016 - 19:14:09 EST


Hi Javier,

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas
<javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Julian,
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback and reviews.
>
> On 06/01/2016 12:20 AM, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas
>> <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/marvell-sd8xxx.txt DT
>>> binding document say that the "interrupts" property in the child node is
>>> optional. So the property being missed shouldn't be treated as an error.
>>
>> Have you checked whether it is truly optional? I.e. nothing else
>> breaks if this property isn't set?
>>
>
> That's what the DT binding says and the IRQ is only used as a wakeup source
> during system suspend, it is not used during runtime. And that is why the
> mwifiex_sdio_probe_of() function does not fail if the IRQ is missing.

Awesome, that's what I wanted to know.

> Now, I just got to that conclusion by reading the binding docs, the message
> in the commits that introduced this and the driver code. Xinming Hu should
> comment on how critical this feature is for systems that needs to be wakeup.

Xinming, could you review this also?

> In any case I think that the code should be consistent with what the binding
> doc says and also the function does (i.e: dev_err only if returns an error).
>
>>> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Other than that, this looks sensible to me.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Best regards,

Thanks,

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