Re: [PATCH] pmdomain: imx: gpcv2: replace dev_err() with dev_err_probe()

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Thu Oct 24 2024 - 13:27:40 EST


Hallo Marco,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 01:01:23PM +0200, Marco Felsch wrote:
> On 24-10-24, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> > The patch standardizes the probe() code by replacing the two occurrences
> > of dev_err() with dev_err_probe(). Indeed, dev_err_probe() was used in all
> > other error paths of the probe() function.
>
> I assume that this paths aren't using dev_err_probe because these paths
> can't return EPROBE_DEFER and therefore dev_err_probe() would use
> dev_err() anyway.

Note that dev_err_probe() has advantages even if the error code isn't
EPROBE_DEFER. In this case it's mentioning the error code.

See also commits
7065f92255bb ("driver core: Clarify that dev_err_probe() is OK even w/out -EPROBE_DEFER")
532888a59505 ("driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe()")

Best regards
Uwe

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