From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Regulator: lp3972 cleanup
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:28:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100917122844.GD4322@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284702257.9481.3.camel@mola>
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:44:17PM +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> - Logging the value for diagnostics if failed to detect device
> if (ret == 0 && (val & SYS_CONTROL1_INIT_MASK) != SYS_CONTROL1_INIT_VAL)
> ret = -ENODEV;
> if (ret < 0) {
> - dev_err(&i2c->dev, "failed to detect device\n");
> + dev_err(&i2c->dev, "failed to detect device: %d\n", ret);
This misses part of the point of my suggestion - if you don't match the
ID register then you'll log -ENODEV rather than the device ID that you
read back which would presumably be more useful for someone trying to
work out why the check triggered.
Lots of other good stuff in there, though:
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-17 5:44 [PATCH] Regulator: lp3972 cleanup Axel Lin
2010-09-17 12:28 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2010-09-20 8:46 ` Liam Girdwood
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