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

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Mar 17 22:14:13 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 12:09:30AM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 21:48 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > I would also like this to be the preferred
> > DRM_ERROR reporting mechanism i.e. anytime we emit an ERROR we should
> > be
> > encouraging the user to file a bug, and do so in a user friendly
> > fashion.
> 
> Ok, but only in i915 I assume. Should we also convert then all
> DRM_ERROR to dev_err - with an *ERROR* prefix - or still use DRM_ERROR?

Within i915. I am thinking along the lines that no DRM_ERROR should
exist that doesn't acknowlege that it is a user facing error message
(i.e. written in plain English and is informative, and includes a bug
reporting reference). So i915_report_error() or somesuch.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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