Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver core: add probe_err log helper

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:55 PM Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 16.10.2018 13:29, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> > On 16.10.2018 13:01, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:22 AM Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for error
> >>> printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error. This
> >>> pattern is simple but requires adding few lines after any resource acquisition
> >>> code, as a result it is often omited or implemented only partially.
> >>> probe_err helps to replace such code seqences with simple call, so code:
> >>>         if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
> >>>                 dev_err(dev, ...);
> >>>         return err;
> >>> becomes:
> >>>         return probe_err(dev, err, ...);

> >>> +               va_start(args, fmt);
> >>> +
> >>> +               vaf.fmt = fmt;
> >>> +               vaf.va = &args;
> >>> +
> >>> +               __dev_printk(KERN_ERR, dev, &vaf);

> >> It would be nice to print an error code as well, wouldn't it?
> > Hmm, on probe fail error is printed anyway (with exception of
> > EPROBE_DEFER, ENODEV and ENXIO):
> >     "probe of %s failed with error %d\n"
> > On the other side currently some drivers prints the error code anyway
> > via dev_err or similar, so I guess during conversion to probe_err it
> > should be removed then.
> >
> > If we add error code to probe_err is it OK to report it this way?
> >     dev_err(dev, "%V, %d\n", &vaf, err);
>
> Ups, I forgot that message passed to probe_err will contain already
> newline character.

You may consider not to pass it.

> So the err must be before message passed to probe_err, for example:
>     dev_err(dev, "err=%d: %V\n", err, &vaf);

> Is it OK?

For me would work either (no \n in the message, or err preceding the message).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko