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From: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: BACKLIGHT: Add more information output to pwm_backlight
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:44:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729104405.941921481@fluff.org.uk> (raw)

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Make the error paths in the pwm_backlight driver more
informative in the probe path, especially for the times
that it finds an error.

CC: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>

Index: linux-2.6.26-quilt4/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-quilt4.orig/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c	2008-07-29 11:28:01.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.26-quilt4/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c	2008-07-29 11:36:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -68,8 +68,10 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct pl
 	struct pwm_bl_data *pb;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!data)
+	if (!data) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to find platform data\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	if (data->init) {
 		ret = data->init(&pdev->dev);
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct pl
 
 	pb = kzalloc(sizeof(*pb), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pb) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "no memory for state\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_alloc;
 	}
@@ -91,7 +94,8 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct pl
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to request PWM for backlight\n");
 		ret = PTR_ERR(pb->pwm);
 		goto err_pwm;
-	}
+	} else
+		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "got pwm for backlight\n");
 
 	bl = backlight_device_register(pdev->name, &pdev->dev,
 			pb, &pwm_backlight_ops);

-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29 10:44 Ben Dooks [this message]
2008-08-01 20:50 ` BACKLIGHT: Add more information output to pwm_backlight Krzysztof Helt

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