Re: [PATCH v2] mdio_bus: suppress err message for reset gpio EPROBE_DEFER

From: Heiner Kallweit
Date: Thu Nov 19 2020 - 16:12:33 EST


Am 19.11.2020 um 21:34 schrieb Grygorii Strashko:
> The mdio_bus may have dependencies from GPIO controller and so got
> deferred. Now it will print error message every time -EPROBE_DEFER is
> returned which from:
> __mdiobus_register()
> |-devm_gpiod_get_optional()
> without actually identifying error code.
>
> "mdio_bus 4a101000.mdio: mii_bus 4a101000.mdio couldn't get reset GPIO"
>
> Hence, suppress error message for devm_gpiod_get_optional() returning
> -EPROBE_DEFER case by using dev_err_probe().
>
> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
> index 757e950fb745..83cd61c3dd01 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
> @@ -546,10 +546,10 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct module *owner)
> /* de-assert bus level PHY GPIO reset */
> gpiod = devm_gpiod_get_optional(&bus->dev, "reset", GPIOD_OUT_LOW);
> if (IS_ERR(gpiod)) {
> - dev_err(&bus->dev, "mii_bus %s couldn't get reset GPIO\n",
> - bus->id);
> + err = dev_err_probe(&bus->dev, PTR_ERR(gpiod),
> + "mii_bus %s couldn't get reset GPIO\n", bus->id);

Doesn't checkpatch complain about line length > 80 here?

> device_del(&bus->dev);
> - return PTR_ERR(gpiod);
> + return err;
> } else if (gpiod) {
> bus->reset_gpiod = gpiod;
>
>

Last but not least the net or net-next patch annotation is missing.
I'd be fine with treating the change as an improvement (net-next).

Apart from that change looks good to me.