netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 04/15] net: dsa: sja1105: prepare regmap for passing to child devices

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Message-ID: <aXJNtz0i--EZXQUR@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:17:59 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Herve Codina <herve.codina@...tlin.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
	Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Choong Yong Liang <yong.liang.choong@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@...stnetic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 04/15] net: dsa: sja1105: prepare regmap for
 passing to child devices

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 04:54:11PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 03:42:45PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > I never understood the point of dev_err_probe() when you know the return
> > code can never be -EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> i) Smaller code; ii) no need to care about: a) deferred probe cases;
> b) -ENOMEM cases.  I see only benefits here by using it.

Isn't it also used for /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred to report to
the user ?

E.g.

supply-voltage-monitor  iio_hwmon: Failed to get channels

produced by drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c::iio_hwmon_probe():

        channels = devm_iio_channel_get_all(dev);
        if (IS_ERR(channels)) {
                ret = PTR_ERR(channels);
                if (ret == -ENODEV)
                        ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
                return dev_err_probe(dev, ret,
                                     "Failed to get channels\n");
        }


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