Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: ti: cpdma: correct error handling for chan create

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Dec 06 2017 - 16:38:23 EST


From: Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 16:54:09 +0200

> @@ -3065,10 +3065,16 @@ static int cpsw_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
>
> cpsw->txv[0].ch = cpdma_chan_create(cpsw->dma, 0, cpsw_tx_handler, 0);
> + if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(cpsw->txv[0].ch))) {
> + dev_err(priv->dev, "error initializing tx dma channel\n");
> + ret = PTR_ERR(cpsw->txv[0].ch);
> + goto clean_dma_ret;
> + }
> +

You're already emitting a proper dev_err() message, therefore WARN_ON()
is a duplicate notification to the logs and therefore not appropriate.