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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: ab8500: Add error message if pwmchip_add() fails
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 09:11:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200812081139.GC4354@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200812075214.499-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> pwmchip_add() doesn't emit an error message, so add one in the driver.

Maybe placing one there would be a good idea.

It would certainly cut down on a lot of superfluous strings.

> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-ab8500.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-ab8500.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-ab8500.c
> index fdf3964db4a6..4b6f9e24e11d 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-ab8500.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-ab8500.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int ab8500_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	err = pwmchip_add(&ab8500->chip);
>  	if (err < 0)
> -		return err;
> +		return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, err, "Failed to add pwm chip\n");
>  
>  	dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "pwm probe successful\n");
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, ab8500);

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-12  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-12  7:52 [PATCH] pwm: ab8500: Add error message if pwmchip_add() fails Uwe Kleine-König
2020-08-12  8:11 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-10-22 19:22   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-10-26  9:33     ` Lee Jones
2020-11-03  8:00       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-11-03  8:18         ` Lee Jones
2020-11-06 13:55 ` Linus Walleij
2020-11-11 18:07 ` Thierry Reding

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