Re: [PATCH v2] mfd: syscon: Decouple syscon interface from platform devices

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Sep 03 2014 - 09:49:45 EST


On Wednesday 03 September 2014 15:16:11 Boris BREZILLON wrote:
> I checked that part, and it appears most of the code is already there
> (see usage of regmap_attach_dev function here [1]).
>
> The only problem I see is that errors are still printed with dev_err,
> which, AFAIK, will trigger a kernel panic if dev is NULL.

Actually not:

static int __dev_printk(const char *level, const struct device *dev,
struct va_format *vaf)
{
if (!dev)
return printk("%s(NULL device *): %pV", level, vaf);

return dev_printk_emit(level[1] - '0', dev,
"%s %s: %pV",
dev_driver_string(dev), dev_name(dev), vaf);
}


Arnd
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