Commit a787e540 authored by Andrzej Hajda's avatar Andrzej Hajda Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarAndrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713144324.23654-2-a.hajda@samsung.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 65488832
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@@ -4203,6 +4203,48 @@ define_dev_printk_level(_dev_info, KERN_INFO);

#endif

/**
 * dev_err_probe - probe error check and log helper
 * @dev: the pointer to the struct device
 * @err: error value to test
 * @fmt: printf-style format string
 * @...: arguments as specified in the format string
 *
 * This helper implements common pattern present in probe functions for error
 * checking: print debug or error message depending if the error value is
 * -EPROBE_DEFER and propagate error upwards.
 * It replaces code sequence:
 * 	if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
 * 		dev_err(dev, ...);
 * 	else
 * 		dev_dbg(dev, ...);
 * 	return err;
 * with
 * 	return dev_err_probe(dev, err, ...);
 *
 * Returns @err.
 *
 */
int dev_err_probe(const struct device *dev, int err, const char *fmt, ...)
{
	struct va_format vaf;
	va_list args;

	va_start(args, fmt);
	vaf.fmt = fmt;
	vaf.va = &args;

	if (err != -EPROBE_DEFER)
		dev_err(dev, "error %d: %pV", err, &vaf);
	else
		dev_dbg(dev, "error %d: %pV", err, &vaf);

	va_end(args);

	return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_err_probe);

static inline bool fwnode_is_primary(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
{
	return fwnode && !IS_ERR(fwnode->secondary);
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@@ -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))