yes, you right. If we remove this message there is no big problem. But if we do not remove this it's also ok, right ? What the big deal to remove this type of messages (i'm just interested) ? For me it's ok to remove: Acked-by: Abylay Ospan <aospan@xxxxxxxx> 2016-08-09 10:58 GMT-04:00 Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Sometimes it better to show more message - especially in error conditions :) > > Sure, if they contain additional information. > >> btw, do you make sanity check for "duplicate" log messages ? > > I checked all error messages if they contain additional information. > >> ret = i2c_add_adapter(&i2c->adap); >> - if (ret) { >> - dev_err(&ndev->pci_dev->dev, >> - "%s(): failed to add I2C adapter\n", __func__); >> + if (ret) >> return ret; >> - } > > IMHO, this one doesn't. __func__ is not helpful to users. And the error > messages in the core will make sure that a developer knows where to > start looking. > -- Abylay Ospan, NetUP Inc. http://www.netup.tv -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html