Re: [PATCH v2 06/16] watchdog: hpwdt: drop warning after calling watchdog_init_timeout

[Guenter Roeck]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:55:33PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > That is indeed a problem: the pointer will be NULL if there is no parent
> > device (such as in softdog.c). Otherwise it should never be NULL.
> 
> Okay, this spoils my err_dev solution. So, we probably go this route
> then:
> 
> 	pr_<errlvl>("watchdog%d: <err_msg>\n", wdd->id);
> 

I don't like it because it doesn't show the driver name, and watchdog%d
can change with each reboot. How about something like this ?

static void pr_wdt_err(struct watchdog_device *wdd, char *text, int err)
{
	if (wdd->parent)
		dev_err(wdd->parent, "%s: %d\n", text, err);
	else
		pr_err("%s: %s: %d\n", wdd->info->identity, text, err);
}

We could then use the same mechanism to generate error messages for
watchdog_register_device().

Guenter