linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] regulator: core: Make error messages more informative

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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:10:26 -0700
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] regulator: core: Make error messages more informative

The same error print exists 4 times in the regulator core

	<rdev>: operation not allowed

Unfortunately, seeing this in the dmesg is not very informative.
Add what type of operation is not allowed to the message so that
these errors are unique, hopefully pointing developers in the
right direction

	<rdev>: drms operation not allowed
	<rdev>: voltage operation not allowed
	<rdev>: current operation not allowed
	<rdev>: mode operation not allowed

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
---

Changes since v1:
 * Make (human) readable

 drivers/regulator/core.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 9283d9f7919b..b616d34a4afa 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ static int regulator_check_voltage(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	if (!(rdev->constraints->valid_ops_mask & REGULATOR_CHANGE_VOLTAGE)) {
-		rdev_err(rdev, "operation not allowed\n");
+		rdev_err(rdev, "voltage operation not allowed\n");
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
 
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static int regulator_check_current_limit(struct regulator_dev *rdev,
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	if (!(rdev->constraints->valid_ops_mask & REGULATOR_CHANGE_CURRENT)) {
-		rdev_err(rdev, "operation not allowed\n");
+		rdev_err(rdev, "current operation not allowed\n");
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
 
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static int regulator_mode_constrain(struct regulator_dev *rdev, int *mode)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	if (!(rdev->constraints->valid_ops_mask & REGULATOR_CHANGE_MODE)) {
-		rdev_err(rdev, "operation not allowed\n");
+		rdev_err(rdev, "mode operation not allowed\n");
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ static int regulator_check_drms(struct regulator_dev *rdev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	if (!(rdev->constraints->valid_ops_mask & REGULATOR_CHANGE_DRMS)) {
-		rdev_dbg(rdev, "operation not allowed\n");
+		rdev_dbg(rdev, "drms operation not allowed\n");
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
 	return 0;
-- 
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