Re: [PATCH] rtc: max77686: Remove some dead code

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 12/05/2021 12:24:26-0400, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 12/05/2021 12:13, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > On 10/05/2021 08:20:52-0400, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >> On 09/05/2021 17:06, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> >>> On 08/05/2021 18:06:03-0600, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:59 AM Christophe JAILLET
> >>>> <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Following the recent conversations, I think it might make sense to do
> >>>>>> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register RTC device: %pe\n", info->rtc_dev);
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is that right?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes, it is right, but it should be done in another patch.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Would you like to give it a try?
> >>>>>
> >>>> Sure, I'll have the patch ready to send it when I see yours on next.
> >>>
> >>> Does it make sense to print anything at all? Who would use the output?
> >>> Is anyone actually going to read it?
> >>
> >> If the RTC core does not print the message, it should be
> >> dev_err_probe().  However the first is recently preferred - RTC core
> >> should do it for all drivers.  I find such error messages useful - helps
> >> easily spotting regressions via dmesg -l err.
> >>
> > 
> > The only error path that will not print a message by default (it is
> > dev_dbg) is when rtc-ops is NULL which I don't expect would regress
> > anyway.
> 
> Then the message in the driver is useless and could be removed.
> 
> > A better way to remove the dead code would be to switch to
> > devm_rtc_allocate_device/devm_rtc_register_device. And even better would
> > be to take that opportunity to set range_min and range_max ;)
> > 
> 
> The driver already uses devm_rtc_device_register() so I think I don't
> follow that part.

devm_rtc_device_register is different from devm_rtc_register_device.

> 
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

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