linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] usb: phy: tegra: Cleanup error messages

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Date:   Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:44:43 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:     Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] usb: phy: tegra: Cleanup error messages

On 11.12.2017 12:37, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 02:07:37AM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> Tegra's PHY driver has a mix of pr_err() and dev_err(), let's switch to
>> dev_err() and use common errors message formatting across the driver for
>> consistency.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/usb/phy/phy-tegra-usb.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> Can we also get rid of all the function names in error messages? I see
> that for some error messages you've removed them, but then for others
> you added them, so you remove inconsistencies on one hand and add other
> inconsistencies at the same time. =)

I've removed function names where they aren't useful and added where they are.
Of course we can change the error message instead of using function name to give
a clue from where in the code error is originated.

I'll remove function names in v2.

> Other than that, I like this.

Thanks ;)