linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 36/57] pwm: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:13:01 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 36/57] pwm: Remove dev_err() usage after
 platform_get_irq()

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 08:58:53AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 11:15:36AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > We don't need dev_err() messages when platform_get_irq() fails now that
> > platform_get_irq() prints an error message itself when something goes
> > wrong. Let's remove these prints with a simple semantic patch.
> 
> Looking at v5.3-rc2 it's not obvious to me that all error paths of
> platform_get_irq issue an error message. Do I miss something?

The commit is in my driver-core tree at the moment, so this should wait
until 5.4-rc1.  I woudn't recommend merging it in 5.3-rc as it's not a
bugfix.

thanks,

greg k-h