linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 11/57] edac: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get

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Message-ID: <aae0a829-3865-a40e-1c9e-191189dd7aab@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Aug 2019 18:04:16 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 11/57] edac: Remove dev_err() usage after
 platform_get_irq()

Hi,

On 30/07/2019 19:15, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> We don't need dev_err() messages when platform_get_irq() fails now that
> platform_get_irq() prints an error message itself when something goes
> wrong.

I assume this is part of a series that makes this the case...


> Let's remove these prints with a simple semantic patch.
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression ret;
> struct platform_device *E;
> @@
> 
> ret =
> (
> platform_get_irq(E, ...)
> |
> platform_get_irq_byname(E, ...)
> );
> 
> if ( \( ret < 0 \| ret <= 0 \) )
> {
> (
> -if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> -{ ...
> -dev_err(...);
> -... }
> |
> ...
> -dev_err(...);
> )
> ...
> }
> // </smpl>

> While we're here, remove braces on if statements that only have one
> statement (manually).

Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>


Thanks,

James