Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: greybus: fw-core: use %pe for error printing

Johan Hovold
2026-01-19T10:25:18Z

[ +CC: Julia ]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 11:35:48AM +0530, Archit Anant wrote:
> Use the %pe printk format specifier to print error codes as symbolic
> names (e.g., -ENOMEM) instead of numeric values. This improves
> readability of error logs.

Greybus and this driver uses numerical errnos in its error messages so
this will introduce a needless inconsistency for no good reason.

> Issue identified by coccicheck using the ptr_err_to_pe.cocci script.

Also see:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251029132922.17329-1-johan@kernel.org/

Johan