From a787e5400a1ceeb0ef92d71ec43aeb35b1fa1334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrzej Hajda Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:43:21 +0200 Subject: driver core: add device probe log helper During probe every time driver gets resource it should usually check for error printk some message if it is not -EPROBE_DEFER and return the error. This pattern is simple but requires adding few lines after any resource acquisition code, as a result it is often omitted or implemented only partially. dev_err_probe helps to replace such code sequences with simple call, so code: if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER) dev_err(dev, ...); return err; becomes: return dev_err_probe(dev, err, ...); Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Reviewed-by: Mark Brown Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713144324.23654-2-a.hajda@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/device.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index a120657d7587..065c24008f8b 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -962,6 +962,9 @@ void device_link_remove(void *consumer, struct device *supplier); void device_links_supplier_sync_state_pause(void); void device_links_supplier_sync_state_resume(void); +extern __printf(3, 4) +int dev_err_probe(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...); + /* Create alias, so I can be autoloaded. */ #define MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV(major,minor) \ MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(major) "-" __stringify(minor)) -- cgit v1.2.3