[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Tune down init error message due to failure injection

[Chris Wilson]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 06:08:05PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 15:55 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > 80cols rules still apply to messages :)
> > 
> > "Device initialization failed (%d). "
> > "Please file a bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi "
> > "against DRI/DRM/Intel providing the dmesg log by booting "
> > "with drm.debug=0xf\n",
> 
> I thought for strings emitted to dmesg it's discouraged, since you
> can't easily grep then. But I can make the link more precise.

Hmm, we haven't abided by that. I don't mind really :)
 
> > I would personally make i915_load_error() a proper function and add
> > the "Please..." output there at a lower logging level than ERROR.
> 
> Using a function is not straightforward since there is no vprintf like
> interface for DRM_ERROR. But I can move that part of the message to
> macro.

In that case, I'm happy enough with ditching the DRM_ERROR here and go
with dev_err(). Another nail in the DRM_ERROR coffin.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre