Add error messages to the probe call. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- While they may rarely trigger, they may be useful when something weird is going on. Also this is good style. Checked with checkpatch.pl and at the runtime. Please apply; don't be worried about the old version number. Maciej patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-pmag-ba-err-1 diff -up --recursive --new-file linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/video/pmag-ba-fb.c linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/video/pmag-ba-fb.c --- linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/video/pmag-ba-fb.c 2006-12-16 16:45:08.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/video/pmag-ba-fb.c 2006-12-16 16:45:23.000000000 +0000 @@ -147,16 +147,23 @@ static int __init pmagbafb_probe(struct resource_size_t start, len; struct fb_info *info; struct pmagbafb_par *par; + int err = 0; info = framebuffer_alloc(sizeof(struct pmagbafb_par), dev); - if (!info) + if (!info) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot allocate memory\n", dev->bus_id); return -ENOMEM; + } par = info->par; dev_set_drvdata(dev, info); - if (fb_alloc_cmap(&info->cmap, 256, 0) < 0) + if (fb_alloc_cmap(&info->cmap, 256, 0) < 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot allocate color map\n", + dev->bus_id); + err = -ENOMEM; goto err_alloc; + } info->fbops = &pmagbafb_ops; info->fix = pmagbafb_fix; @@ -166,28 +173,41 @@ static int __init pmagbafb_probe(struct /* Request the I/O MEM resource. */ start = tdev->resource.start; len = tdev->resource.end - start + 1; - if (!request_mem_region(start, len, dev->bus_id)) + if (!request_mem_region(start, len, dev->bus_id)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot reserve FB region\n", dev->bus_id); + err = -EBUSY; goto err_cmap; + } /* MMIO mapping setup. */ info->fix.mmio_start = start; par->mmio = ioremap_nocache(info->fix.mmio_start, info->fix.mmio_len); - if (!par->mmio) + if (!par->mmio) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot map MMIO\n", dev->bus_id); + err = -ENOMEM; goto err_resource; + } par->dac = par->mmio + PMAG_BA_BT459; /* Frame buffer mapping setup. */ info->fix.smem_start = start + PMAG_BA_FBMEM; info->screen_base = ioremap_nocache(info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len); - if (!info->screen_base) + if (!info->screen_base) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot map FB\n", dev->bus_id); + err = -ENOMEM; goto err_mmio_map; + } info->screen_size = info->fix.smem_len; pmagbafb_erase_cursor(info); - if (register_framebuffer(info) < 0) + err = register_framebuffer(info); + if (err < 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Cannot register framebuffer\n", + dev->bus_id); goto err_smem_map; + } get_device(dev);