linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] base/platform: Continue on insert

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:55:13 +0200
From:	Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@...il.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error

Hi Bjorn:

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:

> Usual style for referencing a commit is "(see 02bbde7849e6 ('Revert "of:
> use platform_device_add"'))".

Do you make that reference manually or there is a magic git command
for printing it in that style?

>

> Sounds like we should expect to see this message more in the future, after
> you change of_platform_device_create_pdata() use platform_device_add().
> You might want to use insert_resource_conflict() here so you can include
> information about *why* we failed to claim the resource.  And it would be
> nice to use %pR for both resources.
>
.....

>>
>> - failed:
>
> Might be nice to keep a comment here as a clue that the rest of the
> function is the failure path.


Will prepare a patch with the changes and resend.


Thanks!

-- 
Ricardo Ribalda
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