linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: mt6360: Restore error message to regmap

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Date:   Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:23:29 +0800
From:   Fei Shao <fshao@...omium.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Gene Chen <gene_chen@...htek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: mt6360: Restore error message to regmap_read failure

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 4:03 PM Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, Fei Shao wrote:
>
> > This adds back a missing error message for better log readability.
> >
> > Fixes: e84702940613 ("mfd: mt6360: Fix flow which is used to check ic
> > exist")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fei Shao <fshao@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >
> >  drivers/mfd/mt6360-core.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/mt6360-core.c b/drivers/mfd/mt6360-core.c
> > index 6eaa6775b888..0ff8dae4536c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mfd/mt6360-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mfd/mt6360-core.c
> > @@ -351,8 +351,10 @@ static int mt6360_check_vendor_info(struct mt6360_ddata *ddata)
> >       int ret;
> >
> >       ret = regmap_read(ddata->regmap, MT6360_PMU_DEV_INFO, &info);
> > -     if (ret < 0)
> > +     if (ret < 0) {
> > +             dev_err(ddata->dev, "Failed to read device info from regmap\n");
>
> I'm not fussed about this change either, but if you insist, please
> change the commit message to be a little more generic.  Users don't
> care about Regmaps and developers can grep it in the source.
>
> Suggest: "Failed to fetch device information from H/W"

I think I was a bit too paranoid about this. Please ignore this as it
doesn't make much sense, and thanks both of you for the feedback. :)

Fei

>
> >               return ret;
> > +     }
> >
> >       if ((info & CHIP_VEN_MASK) != CHIP_VEN_MT6360) {
> >               dev_err(ddata->dev, "Device not supported\n");
>
> --
> Lee Jones [李琼斯]
> Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services
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