On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:05:54 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM Aren Moynihan <aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > If the chip isn't powered, this call is likely to return an error.
> > Without a log here the driver will silently fail to probe. Common errors
> > are ENXIO (when the chip isn't powered) and ETIMEDOUT (when the i2c bus
> > isn't powered).
>
> > ret = regmap_read(data->regmap, STK3310_REG_ID, &chipid);
> > - if (ret < 0)
> > + if (ret < 0) {
> > + dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to read chip id: %d", ret);
> > return ret;
> > + }
>
> Briefly looking at the code it seems that this one is strictly part of
> the probe phase, which means we may use
>
> return dev_err_probe(...);
>
> pattern. Yet, you may add another patch to clean up all of them:
> _probe(), _init(), _regmap_init() to use the same pattern everywhere.
>
Yes, a precursor patch to use dev_err_probe() throughout the probe only
functions in this driver would be excellent.
Jonathan
