linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Input: pwm-beeper - suppress error message on probe defer

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Message-ID: <20170120101621.GE3824@ulmo.ba.sec>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:16:21 +0100
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org, David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@...eet.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Input: pwm-beeper - suppress error message on
 probe defer

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 02:40:55PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> From: David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
> 
> This suppress printing an error message when pwm_get returns -EPROBE_DEFER.
> Otherwise you get a bunch of noise in the kernel log.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
> Patchwork-Id: 9499915
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/input/misc/pwm-beeper.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/pwm-beeper.c b/drivers/input/misc/pwm-beeper.c
> index 04c8ad3827d9..9964c46468d3 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/misc/pwm-beeper.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/misc/pwm-beeper.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ static int pwm_beeper_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	beeper->pwm = devm_pwm_get(dev, NULL);
>  	if (IS_ERR(beeper->pwm)) {
>  		error = PTR_ERR(beeper->pwm);
> -		dev_err(dev, "Failed to request pwm device: %d\n", error);
> +		if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> +			dev_err(dev, "Failed to request pwm device\n");

This also drops the error code from the message. I suspect that this was
intentional because failure to probe will print out the error code
anyway. Might be worth mentioning that in the commit message?

Either way:

Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>

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