Re: [PATCH 3/4] iio: light: stk3310: log error if reading the chip id fails

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 8:57 PM Aren Moynihan <aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the chip isn't powered, this call is likely to return an error.
> Without a log here the driver will silently fail to probe. Common errors
> are ENXIO (when the chip isn't powered) and ETIMEDOUT (when the i2c bus
> isn't powered).

>         ret = regmap_read(data->regmap, STK3310_REG_ID, &chipid);
> -       if (ret < 0)
> +       if (ret < 0) {
> +               dev_err(&client->dev, "failed to read chip id: %d", ret);
>                 return ret;
> +       }

Briefly looking at the code it seems that this one is strictly part of
the probe phase, which means we may use

  return dev_err_probe(...);

pattern. Yet, you may add another patch to clean up all of them:
_probe(), _init(), _regmap_init() to use the same pattern everywhere.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko