Re: [PATCH] EDAC/dmc520: Don't print an error for each unconfigured interrupt line

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jan 16 2022 - 13:30:01 EST


On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:38:00AM -0600, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> The dmc520 driver requires that at least one interrupt line, out of the ten
> possible, is configured. The driver prints an error and returns -EINVAL
> from its .probe function if there are no interrupt lines configured.
>
> Don't print a KERN_ERR level message for each interrupt line that's
> unconfigured as that can confuse users into thinking that there is an
> error condition.
>
> Before this change, the following KERN_ERR level messages would be
> reported if only dram_ecc_errc and dram_ecc_errd were configured in the
> device tree:
>
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ ram_ecc_errc not found
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ ram_ecc_errd not found
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ failed_access not found
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ failed_prog not found
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ link_err not
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ temperature_event not found
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ arch_fsm not found
> dmc520 68000000.dmc: IRQ phy_request not found
>
> Fixes: 1088750d7839 ("EDAC: Add EDAC driver for DMC520")
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Why stable? AFAICT, this is fixing only the spew of some error messages
but the driver is still functional.

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Boris.

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