From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754229Ab3LPNqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:46:40 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:38316 "EHLO mail-wi0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753543Ab3LPNqi (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:46:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:46:33 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: Laszlo Papp Cc: sameo@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: (max8997) Handle the potential error for mfd_add_devices Message-ID: <20131216134633.GI18769@lee--X1> References: <1387194424-2701-1-git-send-email-lpapp@kde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1387194424-2701-1-git-send-email-lpapp@kde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The $SUBJECT line is wrong. To see how a subsystem usually formats theirs you must do something like `git log --oneline -- `. And duplicate the format. Commit message? > Signed-off-by: Laszlo Papp > --- > drivers/mfd/max8997.c | 10 +++++----- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8997.c b/drivers/mfd/max8997.c > index 791aea3..c7cc235 100644 > --- a/drivers/mfd/max8997.c > +++ b/drivers/mfd/max8997.c > @@ -227,19 +227,19 @@ static int max8997_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c, > pm_runtime_set_active(max8997->dev); > > max8997_irq_init(max8997); > - > - mfd_add_devices(max8997->dev, -1, max8997_devs, > + ret = mfd_add_devices(max8997->dev, -1, max8997_devs, > ARRAY_SIZE(max8997_devs), > NULL, 0, NULL); > + if (ret < 0) { > + dev_err(dev, "cannot add mfd cells\n"); > + goto err_mfd; > + } Have you tested this patch on h/w? Did you even compile it? > /* > * TODO: enable others (flash, muic, rtc, battery, ...) and > * check the return value > */ > > - if (ret < 0) > - goto err_mfd; > - > /* MAX8997 has a power button input. */ > device_init_wakeup(max8997->dev, pdata->wakeup); > -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog