Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] iio: temperature: ltc2983: convert to dev_err_probe()

From: Nuno Sá
Date: Fri Jun 07 2024 - 06:38:00 EST


On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 17:12 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 02:27:03PM +0200, Nuno Sá wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 13:17 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 09:22:38AM +0200, Nuno Sa wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > > + return dev_err_ptr_probe(&st->spi->dev, -
> > > > EINVAL,
> > >
> > > You can make all these lines shorter by using
> > >
> > > struct device *dev = &st->spi->dev; // or analogue
> > >
> > > at the top of the function.
> > >
> >
> > Well, I had that in v2 (making the whole driver coherent with the local
> > struct
> > device helper but you kind of "complained" for a precursor patch (on a
> > devm_kzalloc() call). So basically I deferred that change for a follow up
> > patch.
>
> Hmm... I don't remember the story behind this, but probably it's good to have
> this done one (precursor) or the other way (follow up). Just check how many
> changes will be done, whichever diff is shorter, choose that one.
>

Well that has not much to do with the current series. I would prefer to have a
follow up when we're done with the current changes. Right now I would really
prefer to focus on the new dev_err_* APIs and see if anything else is needed for
this to be acceptable.

- Nuno Sá