On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > >> v4: Further feedback was integrated into this message. > > > > This is not a good change-log. What actually changed? > > Which kind of information would you find more useful in this case? That's for you to tell me surely? If I wanted to know what changed, I would normally look at the patch change-log. But the change-log in this patch says "I did some stuff". What stuff did you change? Which review comments did you tend to? > > >> @@ -222,19 +222,20 @@ static struct device *add_child(struct i2c_client *client, const char *name, > >> status = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &r, 1); > >> if (status < 0) { > >> dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "can't add irq\n"); > >> - goto err; > >> + goto put_device; > >> } > >> } > >> > >> status = platform_device_add(pdev); > >> + if (status) > >> + goto put_device; > >> > >> -err: > >> - if (status < 0) { > >> - platform_device_put(pdev); > >> - dev_err(&client->dev, "can't add %s dev\n", name); > >> - return ERR_PTR(status); > >> - } > >> return &pdev->dev; > >> + > >> +put_device: > >> + platform_device_put(pdev); > >> + dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to add device %s\n", name); > > > > ... and remove this line. > > -Do you really want that this error message should be deleted? > > How does this response fit to your request to introduce such a message > for the function "add_numbered_child" (on 2016-06-08)? > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1162299.html > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/8/467 You've lost the context. The "..." is meant to intimate that it follows on from a previous comment. In this case: > > status = platform_device_add_data(pdev, pdata, pdata_len); > > if (status < 0) { > > dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "can't add platform_data\n"); > > Please take the opportunity to convert these to dev_err()s. So, convert the specific dev_dbg() calls to dev_err() and remove the contentless one at the bottom. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html