Re: [PATCH] gpio: dwapb: Don't print error on -EPROBE_DEFER

[Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:51:52AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> Currently if the APB or Debounce clocks aren't yet ready to be requested
> the DW GPIO driver will correctly handle that by deferring the probe
> procedure, but the error is still printed to the system log. It needlessly
> pollutes the log since there was no real error but a request to postpone
> the clock request procedure since the clocks subsystem hasn't been fully
> initialized yet. Let's fix that by using the dev_err_probe method to print
> the APB/clock request error status. It will correctly handle the deferred
> probe situation and print the error if it actually happens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> index b0f3aca61974..a51458be34a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-dwapb.c
> @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ static int dwapb_get_clks(struct dwapb_gpio *gpio)
>  	err = devm_clk_bulk_get_optional(gpio->dev, DWAPB_NR_CLOCKS,
>  					 gpio->clks);
>  	if (err) {

> -		dev_err(gpio->dev, "Cannot get APB/Debounce clocks\n");
> +		dev_err_probe(gpio->dev, err, "Cannot get APB/Debounce clocks\n");

As Philipp correctly pointed out here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220610080103.10689-1-Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
This can be shortened out by directly returning a value returned by
the dev_err_probe() method. I'll fix that in v2.

-Sergey

>  		return err;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.35.1
>