On 24.06.2020 15:23, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:41:23PM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
>>> During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for error
>>> printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error. This
>>> pattern is simple but requires adding few lines after any resource acquisition
>>> code, as a result it is often omited or implemented only partially.
>>> probe_err helps to replace such code sequences with simple call, so code:
>>> if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
>>> dev_err(dev, ...);
>>> return err;
>>> becomes:
>>> return probe_err(dev, err, ...);
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/base/core.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> include/linux/device.h | 3 +++
>>> 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
>>> index 67d39a90b45c..ee9da66bff1b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
>>> @@ -3953,6 +3953,45 @@ define_dev_printk_level(_dev_info, KERN_INFO);
>>>
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> +/**
>>> + * probe_err - probe error check and log helper
>>> + * @dev: the pointer to the struct device
>>> + * @err: error value to test
>>> + * @fmt: printf-style format string
>>> + * @...: arguments as specified in the format string
>>> + *
>>> + * This helper implements common pattern present in probe functions for error
>>> + * checking: print message if the error is not -EPROBE_DEFER and propagate it.
>>> + * It replaces code sequence:
>>> + * if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
>>> + * dev_err(dev, ...);
>>> + * return err;
>>> + * with
>>> + * return probe_err(dev, err, ...);
>>> + *
>>> + * Returns @err.
>>> + *
>>> + */
>>> +int probe_err(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...)
>>> +{
>>> + struct va_format vaf;
>>> + va_list args;
>>> +
>>> + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>>> + return err;
>>> +
>>> + va_start(args, fmt);
>>> + vaf.fmt = fmt;
>>> + vaf.va = &args;
>>> +
>>> + dev_err(dev, "error %d: %pV", err, &vaf);
>>> +
>>> + va_end(args);
>>> +
>>> + return err;
>>> +}
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(probe_err);
>> Please be specific in global symbols, how about "driver_probe_error()"?
> Or dev_err_probe() to match the existing dev_* functions ?
OK.
Regards
Andrzej
>
>> And merge the other patch into this one, as Raphael said, otherwise this
>> just looks odd to add something and then fix it up later.
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