We have a number of APIs like regulator, clocks or reset, which return an error pointer. To format that pointer for dev_err_probe, we need to pass it through PTR_ERR(). Let's make such code more concise by defining dev_errp_probe, which calls PTR_ERR() on its second argument. Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/printk.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/printk.h b/include/linux/printk.h index 057b355aa129..978e853bab48 100644 --- a/include/linux/printk.h +++ b/include/linux/printk.h @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #define __LINUX_PRINTK_H #include <linux/list.h> +#include <linux/err.h> #include <printk.h> #include <stdarg.h> @@ -89,6 +90,8 @@ static inline int dev_err_probe(struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, } #endif +#define dev_errp_probe(dev, errptr, args...) dev_err_probe((dev), PTR_ERR(errptr), args) + #define __pr_printk(level, format, args...) \ ({ \ (level) <= LOGLEVEL ? pr_print((level), (format), ##args) : 0; \ -- 2.39.2