linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] driver core: add probe

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Message-ID: <20181017095656.GC24097@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:56:56 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, andy.shevchenko@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] driver core: add probe_err log helper

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for error
> printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error. This
> pattern is simple but requires adding few lines after any resource acquisition
> code, as a result it is often omited or implemented only partially.
> probe_err helps to replace such code sequences with simple call, so code:

Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

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