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);
--
Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)
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next reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 10:44 UTC|newest]
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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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