Re: [PATCH 06/41] drivers: tty: serial: sb1250-duart: use dev_err() instead of printk()

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/sb1250-duart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/sb1250-duart.c
> index 329aced..655961c 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/sb1250-duart.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/sb1250-duart.c
> @@ -663,7 +663,6 @@ static void sbd_release_port(struct uart_port *uport)
>  
>  static int sbd_map_port(struct uart_port *uport)
>  {
> -	const char *err = KERN_ERR "sbd: Cannot map MMIO\n";
>  	struct sbd_port *sport = to_sport(uport);
>  	struct sbd_duart *duart = sport->duart;
>  
> @@ -671,7 +670,7 @@ static int sbd_map_port(struct uart_port *uport)
>  		uport->membase = ioremap_nocache(uport->mapbase,
>  						 DUART_CHANREG_SPACING);
>  	if (!uport->membase) {
> -		printk(err);
> +		dev_err(uport->dev, "Cannot map MMIO (base)\n");
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -679,7 +678,7 @@ static int sbd_map_port(struct uart_port *uport)
>  		sport->memctrl = ioremap_nocache(duart->mapctrl,
>  						 DUART_CHANREG_SPACING);
>  	if (!sport->memctrl) {
> -		printk(err);
> +		dev_err(uport->dev, "Cannot map MMIO (ctrl)\n");
>  		iounmap(uport->membase);
>  		uport->membase = NULL;
>  		return -ENOMEM;

 Hmm, what's the point to have separate messages, which consume extra 
memory, for a hardly if at all possible error condition?

  Maciej