Commit b608075e authored by Wolfram Sang's avatar Wolfram Sang Committed by Wim Van Sebroeck
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watchdog: let core print error message when registering device fails



So we can remove boilerplate code from drivers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
parent 80030425
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@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ static int __watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)

int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
{
	const char *dev_str;
	int ret = 0;

	mutex_lock(&wtd_deferred_reg_mutex);
@@ -272,6 +273,14 @@ int watchdog_register_device(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
	else
		watchdog_deferred_registration_add(wdd);
	mutex_unlock(&wtd_deferred_reg_mutex);

	if (ret) {
		dev_str = wdd->parent ? dev_name(wdd->parent) :
			  (const char *)wdd->info->identity;
		pr_err("%s: failed to register watchdog device (err = %d)\n",
			dev_str, ret);
	}

	return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(watchdog_register_device);