Re: [PATCHv4 2/3] Input: twl4030-pwrbutton: use dev_err for errors

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 21:31 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:17:46AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 19:54 +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > > Use dev_err() to output errors instead of dev_dbg().
> > []
> > > diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/twl4030-pwrbutton.c b/drivers/input/misc/twl4030-pwrbutton.c
> > []
> > > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static int twl4030_pwrbutton_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > >  
> > >  	pwr = input_allocate_device();
> > >  	if (!pwr) {
> > > -		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "Can't allocate power button\n");
> > > +		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Can't allocate power button\n");
> > >  		return -ENOMEM;
> > >  	}
> > 
> > input_allocate_device uses kzalloc and it will emit a
> > standardized OOM message along with a dump_stack()
> > so this dev_err/dev_dbg is redundant and not necessary.
> 
> I saw you sent a big patchset changing this for all drivers.
> Should I drop this patch?

I think the 2 other bits of this patch are fine.
Maybe resend with this section dropped?

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