Printing the error code for a failure provides a head-start for debugging, since it's often sufficient to pinpoint the origin of the failure. We already do this for some probe-failure messages, so let's make the rest of them consistent. Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> --- This is based on Stefan's "[PATCH V5 3/3] hwmon: pwm-fan: Add RPM support via external interrupt" drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c index 8c4c5eefd4ca..556db4bef743 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static int pwm_fan_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) ret = pwm_apply_state(ctx->pwm, &state); if (ret) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to configure PWM\n"); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to configure PWM: %d\n", ret); goto err_reg_disable; } @@ -348,7 +348,8 @@ static int pwm_fan_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) ret = devm_request_irq(&pdev->dev, ctx->irq, pulse_handler, 0, pdev->name, ctx); if (ret) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Can't get interrupt working.\n"); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, + "Failed to request interrupt: %d\n", ret); goto err_pwm_disable; } ctx->sample_start = ktime_get(); @@ -358,8 +359,9 @@ static int pwm_fan_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) hwmon = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(&pdev->dev, "pwmfan", ctx, pwm_fan_groups); if (IS_ERR(hwmon)) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register hwmon device\n"); ret = PTR_ERR(hwmon); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, + "Failed to register hwmon device: %d\n", ret); goto err_del_timer; } @@ -373,9 +375,10 @@ static int pwm_fan_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) "pwm-fan", ctx, &pwm_fan_cooling_ops); if (IS_ERR(cdev)) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, - "Failed to register pwm-fan as cooling device"); ret = PTR_ERR(cdev); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, + "Failed to register pwm-fan as cooling device: %d\n", + ret); goto err_del_timer; } ctx->cdev = cdev; -- 2.21.0.dirty