linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: designware: use dev_err

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Message-ID: <aLlgRorNlvF1k2h9@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 12:47:50 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Benoît Monin <benoit.monin@...tlin.com>
Cc: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jan Dabros <jsd@...ihalf.com>, Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
	Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@...ileye.com>,
	Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik.bayouk@...ileye.com>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: designware: use dev_err_probe when probing platform
 device

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 10:59:24AM +0200, Benoît Monin wrote:
> Add calls to dev_err_probe on error paths that can return -EPROBE_DEFER
> when probing platform device. Namely when requesting the reset controller,
> when probing for lock support and when requesting the clocks.
> 
> In i2c_dw_probe_master and i2c_dw_probe_slave, called by the platform
> probe from i2c_dw_probe, replace the call to dev_err by dev_err_probe
> when failing to acquire the IRQ.
> 
> PCI device probing already use dev_err_probe.

What I see here is two patches:
1) conversion existing dev_err() to dev_err_probe();
2) adding messages to some of the plain return $ERR.

Can you split with respective justification for each of them?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko