Re: [PATCH 5/5] iio:potentiostat:lmp91000: add '\n' on dev_err

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Mar 03 2019 - 11:49:26 EST


On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:15:52 -0300
Lucas Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the review!
>
> On 20/02/2019 19:22, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 09:49 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> >> On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:01:23 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 14:22 -0300, Lucas Oshiro wrote:
> >>>> Add missing '\n' at the end of dev_err message on line 215.
> >>> []
> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/potentiostat/lmp91000.c b/drivers/iio/potentiostat/lmp91000.c
> >>> []
> >>>> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static int lmp91000_read_config(struct lmp91000_data *data)
> >>>> ret = of_property_read_u32(np, "ti,tia-gain-ohm", &val);
> >>>> if (ret) {
> >>>> if (!of_property_read_bool(np, "ti,external-tia-resistor")) {
> >>>> - dev_err(dev, "no ti,tia-gain-ohm defined");
> >>>> + dev_err(dev, "no ti,tia-gain-ohm defined\n");
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps a copy/paste error as the test is for
> >>> external-tia-resistor and not tia-gain-ohm
> >>>
> >> It is an odd construct, but I think this is correct. What it is actually
> >> saying is that, given that we don't have an external resistor, we care
> >> that the tia-gain-ohm isn't set (otherwise it wouldn't matter).
> >>
> >> From the docs
> >> - ti,external-tia-resistor: if the property ti,tia-gain-ohm is not defined this
> >> needs to be set to signal that an external resistor value is being used.
> >>
> >> So, it might be ideal to say that tia-gain-ohm is not defined and we do
> >> not have an external resistor specified.
> >>
> >> So not wrong, but could be more informative! So perhaps a follow up patch
> >> to tidy that up would be good.
>
> So, this means that it's a good idea to change the dev_err message to something
> like "no ti,tia-gain-ohm defined and external resistor not specified"?

Exactly. Thanks,

Jonathan
>
> >
> > Then thanks in advance for doing that.
> > cheers, Joe
> >