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Date:   Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:49:30 +0200
From:   Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Andrew Murray <amurray@...goodpenguin.co.uk>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: tegra: Fix reporting GPIO error value

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:17:36PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2020 13:31:04 Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:25:12PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > Error code is stored in rp->reset_gpio and not in err variable.a
[...]
> > > -				dev_err(dev, "failed to get reset GPIO: %d\n",
> > > -					err);
> > > +				dev_err(dev, "failed to get reset GPIO: %ld\n",
> > > +					PTR_ERR(rp->reset_gpio));
> > >  				return PTR_ERR(rp->reset_gpio);
> > >  			}
> > >  		}
> > 
> > You can use %pe directly on the pointer for added benefit of translation
> > of the error to a name.
> 
> Well, I do not know what is the current preferred style of error
> messages. On lot of places I see just numeric error numbers.

%pe is quite a recent addition to the kernel (since v5.3).

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław

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