linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rtc: stmp3xxx: check for failure

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Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2016 19:39:54 +0100
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>
Cc:	Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rtc-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtc: stmp3xxx: check for failure

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:07:15PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/04/2016 at 22:03:55 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote :
> > stmp3xxx_wdt_register() can fail as platform_device_alloc() or
> > platform_device_add() can fail. Lets check for the return value from
> > both platform_device_alloc() and platform_device_add() and return the
> > error value accordingly which is now propagated from probe.
> > 
> 
> Well, this may have been intentional. The RTC doesn't need the watchdog
> driver to be present to work correctly. However, I agree that failing
> silently is not nice.
> 
> Did you have any particular issue? Maybe simply adding a dev_err() or
> two would be fine.

I didnot have any particular issue. I will send a new patch with some
error message there.

regards
sudip