Re: [PATCH] regulator: pca9450: use dev_err_probe on errors requesting resources

[Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>]

Hello Frieder,

On 17.12.24 10:04, Frieder Schrempf wrote:
> On 17.12.24 9:59 AM, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> Probe functions requesting resources may return -EPROBE_DEFER to
>> the driver core to instruct it to retry probe at a later time.
>> This is not unusual and printing an error message unconditionally
>> is just confusing to users:
>>
>>   nxp-pca9450 0-0025: Failed to register regulator(buck1): -517
>>
>> Using dev_err_probe remedies this:
>>
>> The error message will only be shown if the error code is not
>> -EPROBE_DEFER and if it is, the deferral reason is saved for display
>> at a later time.
>>
>> Fixes: 0935ff5f1f0a ("regulator: pca9450: add pca9450 pmic driver")
>> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
> 
> There is a similar change already queued in next:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/regulator/pca9450-regulator.c?id=0f5c601098bd3c9cdfea3e01aacdd9d0c4010ea7

Thanks for pointing this out.

Sorry for the noise!
Ahmad

> 
>> ---
>>  drivers/regulator/pca9450-regulator.c | 25 +++++++++++--------------
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/pca9450-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/pca9450-regulator.c
>> index 9714afe347dcc0205b40243252638dff5f9298ad..8f5ba59f7fe52bee1e467a3e6adf81a6a5476221 100644
>> --- a/drivers/regulator/pca9450-regulator.c
>> +++ b/drivers/regulator/pca9450-regulator.c
>> @@ -953,13 +953,10 @@ static int pca9450_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
>>  		config.dev = pca9450->dev;
>>  
>>  		rdev = devm_regulator_register(pca9450->dev, desc, &config);
>> -		if (IS_ERR(rdev)) {
>> -			ret = PTR_ERR(rdev);
>> -			dev_err(pca9450->dev,
>> -				"Failed to register regulator(%s): %d\n",
>> -				desc->name, ret);
>> -			return ret;
>> -		}
>> +		if (IS_ERR(rdev))
>> +			return dev_err_probe(pca9450->dev, PTR_ERR(rdev),
>> +				"Failed to register regulator(%s)\n",
>> +				desc->name);
>>  	}
>>  
>>  	if (pca9450->irq) {
>> @@ -968,9 +965,9 @@ static int pca9450_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
>>  						(IRQF_TRIGGER_FALLING | IRQF_ONESHOT),
>>  						"pca9450-irq", pca9450);
>>  		if (ret != 0) {
>> -			dev_err(pca9450->dev, "Failed to request IRQ: %d\n",
>> -				pca9450->irq);
>> -			return ret;
>> +			return dev_err_probe(pca9450->dev, ret,
>> +					     "Failed to request IRQ: %d\n",
>> +					     pca9450->irq);
>>  		}
>>  		/* Unmask all interrupt except PWRON/WDOG/RSVD */
>>  		ret = regmap_update_bits(pca9450->regmap, PCA9450_REG_INT1_MSK,
>> @@ -1022,10 +1019,10 @@ static int pca9450_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *i2c)
>>  	 */
>>  	pca9450->sd_vsel_gpio = gpiod_get_optional(pca9450->dev, "sd-vsel", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH);
>>  
>> -	if (IS_ERR(pca9450->sd_vsel_gpio)) {
>> -		dev_err(&i2c->dev, "Failed to get SD_VSEL GPIO\n");
>> -		return PTR_ERR(pca9450->sd_vsel_gpio);
>> -	}
>> +	if (IS_ERR(pca9450->sd_vsel_gpio))
>> +		return dev_err_probe(&i2c->dev,
>> +				     PTR_ERR(pca9450->sd_vsel_gpio),
>> +				     "Failed to get SD_VSEL GPIO\n");
>>  
>>  	dev_info(&i2c->dev, "%s probed.\n",
>>  		type == PCA9450_TYPE_PCA9450A ? "pca9450a" :
>>
>> ---
>> base-commit: 78d4f34e2115b517bcbfe7ec0d018bbbb6f9b0b8
>> change-id: 20241217-pca9450-dev_err_probe-778149cae5ee
>>
>> Best regards,
> 
> 


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