Re: [PATCH v1 3/6] misc: eeprom: eeprom_93cx6: Replace printk(KERN_ERR ...) with pr_err()

Andy Shevchenko
2024-09-16T10:32:52Z

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 12:25:52PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 12:55:05PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 08:58:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Parker Newman wrote:

...

> > > > - printk(KERN_ERR "%s: timeout\n", __func__);
> > > > + pr_err("%s: timeout\n", __func__);
> > >
> > > It's a device, please use dev_err().
> >
> > The problem is that this library doesn't know about this fact. I.e. it would
> > need a new member just for this message. Instead, maybe drop the message as we
> > anyway get a unique enough error code?
>
> Fair enough, although adding real device pointers would be good to do in
> the future...

Let's then do it when it will be the real need? Because I don't think this
message is _so_ important. I believe one of the upper layers (whichever calls
this function) should propagate the error code up to the user space. If it's
not the case _that_ has to be fixed.

TL;DR: Let's remove the message for now.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko