[PATCH] media: s5p-mfc remove unnecessary error messages

Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-07-14T13:36:36Z

Hello Shuah,

On 07/14/2016 09:35 AM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 07/14/2016 06:46 AM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Shuah,
>>
>> On 07/12/2016 08:33 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
>>> Removing unnecessary error messages as appropriate error code is returned.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c | 2 --
>>> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
>>> index b6fde20..906f80c 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/s5p_mfc.c
>>> @@ -759,7 +759,6 @@ static int s5p_mfc_open(struct file *file)
>>> /* Allocate memory for context */
>>> ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
>>> if (!ctx) {
>>> - mfc_err("Not enough memory\n");
>>
>> I agree to remove this since in case of a OOM, the core already does a
>> stack dump and prints an error message so there's no need to it here.
>>
>>> ret = -ENOMEM;
>>> goto err_alloc;
>>> }
>>> @@ -776,7 +775,6 @@ static int s5p_mfc_open(struct file *file)
>>> while (dev->ctx[ctx->num]) {
>>> ctx->num++;
>>> if (ctx->num >= MFC_NUM_CONTEXTS) {
>>> - mfc_err("Too many open contexts\n");
>>
>> But I think this error message shouldn't be removed since explains why
>> the open failed, even when an error code is returned.
>
> This message isn't very informative and not sure if it is giving
> any more information than EBUSY. It is a good debug message perhaps,
> but not an error message. Would it be okay if I made it debug instead.
>

Making it a debug message sounds good to me.

> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>>
>>> ret = -EBUSY;
>>> goto err_no_ctx;
>>> }
>>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America