Hi Uwe,
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 09:21:45AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:36:38PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > v9:
> > > - Removed the header file and put the definitions into the c file.
> > > - Updated the pwm code and error logs with %pE
> >
> > I believe the %pE is to format an escaped buffer, you probably want to
> > %pe (lowercase) to print errors. I am also not quite sure if we want to
> > use it in cases when we have non-pointer error, or we should stick with
> > %d as most of the kernel does.
>
> compared with %d %pe is easier to understand as it emits "-ETIMEOUT"
> instead of "-110". And yes, %pE is wrong.
While I can see that symbolic name instead of a numeric constant might
be appealing, I do not believe that we want fragments like this with
endless conversions between integer and pointer errors:
if (haptics->const_op_mode == DA7280_PWM_MODE) {
haptics->pwm_dev = devm_pwm_get(dev, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(haptics->pwm_dev)) {
error = PTR_ERR(haptics->pwm_dev);
if (error != -EPROBE_DEFER)
dev_err(dev, "unable to request PWM: %pE\n",
ERR_PTR(error));
return error;
}
Maybe we should introduce something like '%de' for the integer error
case? In the meantime I would prefer using %d when we have integer
error. We should not see these error messages anyway ;)
Thanks.
--
Dmitry
