From: Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>,
Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 2/3] Input: twl4030-pwrbutton: use dev_err for errors
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:31:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023193112.GB30437@earth.universe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382552266.22433.36.camel@joe-AO722>
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:17:46AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:54 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > Use dev_err() to output errors instead of dev_dbg().
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/twl4030-pwrbutton.c b/drivers/input/misc/twl4030-pwrbutton.c
> []
> > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int twl4030_pwrbutton_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >
> > pwr = input_allocate_device();
> > if (!pwr) {
> > - dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Can't allocate power button\n");
> > + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Can't allocate power button\n");
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > }
>
> input_allocate_device uses kzalloc and it will emit a
> standardized OOM message along with a dump_stack()
> so this dev_err/dev_dbg is redundant and not necessary.
I saw you sent a big patchset changing this for all drivers.
Should I drop this patch?
-- Sebastian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-23 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-23 17:54 [PATCHv4 0/3] DT Support for TWL4030 power button Sebastian Reichel
2013-10-23 17:54 ` [PATCHv4 1/3] Input: twl4030-pwrbutton - add device tree support Sebastian Reichel
2013-10-24 7:47 ` Florian Vaussard
2013-10-24 8:38 ` Sebastian Reichel
2013-10-24 9:16 ` Florian Vaussard
2013-10-23 17:54 ` [PATCHv4 2/3] Input: twl4030-pwrbutton: use dev_err for errors Sebastian Reichel
2013-10-23 18:17 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-23 19:31 ` Sebastian Reichel [this message]
[not found] ` <20131023193112.GB30437-SfvFxonMDyemK9LvCR3Hrw@public.gmane.org>
2013-10-23 19:38 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-23 17:54 ` [PATCHv4 3/3] Input: twl4030-pwrbutton: simplify driver using devm_* Sebastian Reichel
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