Hi Robert, On 27/02/15 17:08, Robert Abel wrote: > Hi Roger, > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> + /* is child a common bus? */ >>> + if (of_match_node(of_default_bus_match_table, child)) >>> + /* create children and other common bus children */ >>> + if (of_platform_populate(child, of_default_bus_match_table, NULL, &pdev->dev)) >>> + goto err_child_fail; >> >> this would print "failed to create gpmc child" but we have already created >> the gpmc child in the first of_platform_device_create() call. >> A more appropriate message would be "failed to populate all children of child->name" >> >> Also do you want to return failure? >> it will result in of_node_put() of the child and another print message >> about "probing gpmc child %s failed" in gpmc_probe_dt(). >> >> IMO if the GPMC node's child was created fine then we shouldn't return error. > > As of_platform_populate _always_ return 0 no matter what, the only way > to reach that message is if probing the child failed. GPMCs child is already probed. It is the child's child we are talking about in of_platform_populate. > As I cannot see into the future when of_platform_populate might > actually be changed to return meaningful codes, we shouldn't try to > foresee what the actual problem might be today either. This is a > battle for another day. > If that is the case then I'd rather not check for return value of of_platform_populate(). Failure in populating GPMC child's children is already out of scope of GPMC driver. cheers, -roger -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html