From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: staging: media: lirc: lirc_zilog.c: replace custom print macros with dev_* and pr_*
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:35:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141031143541.GM6890@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141031142644.GA4166@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:26:45PM +0200, Aya Mahfouz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 04:06:00PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
> > 1333 /* Close the IR device */
> > 1334 static int close(struct inode *node, struct file *filep)
> > 1335 {
> > 1336 /* find our IR struct */
> > 1337 struct IR *ir = filep->private_data;
> > 1338
> > 1339 if (ir == NULL) {
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> > 1340 dev_err(ir->l.dev, "close: no private_data attached to the file!\n");
> > ^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > I suggest you just delete the error message. Can "ir" actually be NULL
> > here anyway?
> >
>
> Since I'm a newbie and this is not my code, I prefer to use pr_err().
This driver doesn't belong to anyone. Go ahead and take ownership. The
message is fairly worthless and no one will miss it.
>
> In general, I can send a new patch to fix the aforementioned warnings.
> Kindly let me know if you prefer that I send a second version of this
> patch.
No. The first patch was already applied so send a new patch.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-31 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-31 13:06 staging: media: lirc: lirc_zilog.c: replace custom print macros with dev_* and pr_* Dan Carpenter
2014-10-31 14:26 ` Aya Mahfouz
2014-10-31 14:35 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-11-01 20:05 ` Aya Mahfouz
2014-11-06 12:46 ` Sean Young
2014-11-06 13:05 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2014-11-06 13:21 ` Sean Young
[not found] ` <697D038C-4BD9-4113-8E7E-B89BACF09AC2@gmail.com>
2014-11-06 13:56 ` Andy Walls
2014-11-09 21:35 ` Sean Young
2014-11-17 14:59 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2014-11-20 12:38 ` Sean Young
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