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From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] driver core: platform: Add an error message to platform_get_irq*()
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:17:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d38a0d1.1c69fb81.4e830.7802@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d12a32e6-fd82-71f8-c320-ea6e844db3f4@web.de>

Quoting Markus Elfring (2019-07-24 08:00:43)
> > Let's consolidate all these error messages into the API itself,
> > allowing us to get rid of the error messages in each driver.
> 
> Such information from the commit descriptions sounds positive.
> 
> 
> > +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
> …
> > @@ -163,6 +158,22 @@ int platform_get_irq(struct platform_device *dev, unsigned int num)
> …
> > +/**
> > + * platform_get_irq - get an IRQ for a device
> > + * @dev: platform device
> > + * @num: IRQ number index
> > + */
> 
> Do you find the provided description for the programming interface
> really sufficient then?
> Would it be more helpful to indicate the existence of an appropriate error message
> also in this software documentation (besides the C source code)?
> 

Sure. I'll add some more documentation in this patch too so that
developers can easily see that they shouldn't print an error message
themselves.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-24 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-23 18:16 [PATCH v4 0/3] Add error message to platform_get_irq*() Stephen Boyd
2019-07-23 18:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] driver core: platform: Add an " Stephen Boyd
2019-07-24 15:00   ` Markus Elfring
2019-07-24 18:17     ` Stephen Boyd [this message]
2019-07-25  5:55   ` Markus Elfring
2019-07-23 18:16 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] treewide: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get_irq() Stephen Boyd
2019-07-23 18:31   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-07-23 22:23     ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-24 11:17       ` [v4 " Markus Elfring
2019-07-23 19:30   ` [PATCH v4 " Rob Herring
2019-07-23 22:24     ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-24 17:08       ` Mark Brown
2019-07-24  6:35   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-24 17:06   ` Mark Brown
2019-07-23 18:16 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] coccinelle: Add script to check for platform_get_irq() excessive prints Stephen Boyd
2019-07-24  9:30   ` Markus Elfring
2019-07-24 18:21     ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-24 18:38       ` [v4 " Markus Elfring
2019-07-24 13:18   ` [PATCH v4 " Markus Elfring
2019-07-24 18:23     ` Stephen Boyd
2019-07-24 18:45       ` [v4 " Markus Elfring

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