From b0465a4897047ece1e4275fefc88a66ee41c5379 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 [ Upstream commit a787e5400a1ceeb0ef92d71ec43aeb35b1fa1334 ] 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 Stable-dep-of: 6d710b769c1f ("serial: sc16is7xx: add check for unsupported SPI modes during probe") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- include/linux/device.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index bccd367c11de..0714d6e5d500 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -1581,6 +1581,9 @@ do { \ WARN_ONCE(condition, "%s %s: " format, \ dev_driver_string(dev), dev_name(dev), ## arg) +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