linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc: aspeed-lpc-ctrl: Correct return values

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:52:47 +1030
From:   Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>
To:     Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@...com>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "openbmc @ lists . ozlabs . org" <openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: aspeed-lpc-ctrl: Correct return values

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, at 05:59, Vijay Khemka wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/24/19, 12:16 AM, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Vijay Khemka wrote:
>     > Corrected some of return values with appropriate meanings.
>     > 
>     > Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@...com>
>     > ---
>     >  drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c | 15 +++++++--------
>     >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>     > 
>     > diff --git a/drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c b/drivers/misc/aspeed-
> lpc-ctrl.c
>     > index 332210e06e98..97ae341109d5 100644
>     > --- a/drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c
>     > +++ b/drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c
>     > @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ static long aspeed_lpc_ctrl_ioctl(struct file 
> *file, unsigned int cmd,
>     >  		unsigned long param)
>     >  {
>     >  	struct aspeed_lpc_ctrl *lpc_ctrl = file_aspeed_lpc_ctrl(file);
>     > -	struct device *dev = file->private_data;
>     >  	void __user *p = (void __user *)param;
>     >  	struct aspeed_lpc_ctrl_mapping map;
>     >  	u32 addr;
>     > @@ -93,8 +92,8 @@ static long aspeed_lpc_ctrl_ioctl(struct file 
> *file, unsigned int cmd,
>     >  
>     >  		/* If memory-region is not described in device tree */
>     >  		if (!lpc_ctrl->mem_size) {
>     > -			dev_err(dev, "Didn't find reserved memory\n");
>     > -			return -EINVAL;
>     > +			pr_err("aspeed_lpc_ctrl: ioctl: Didn't find reserved memory\n");
>     
>     Why did you change from dev_err() to pr_err()?  You just lost a lot of
>     information that the user previously was getting from dev_err() :(
> 
> I did this as per review comment from Andrew Jeffery, as we don't want 
> to put this error for driver. It has to be handled by userspace. But I 
> am still reporting some error here.

Sorry? What I was trying to suggest was removing the logging altogether and
just returning the error code. Not simply changing how the logging is done.

Andrew