Re: [PATCH] EDAC/altera:Use platform_get_irq_optional()

[Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>]

On 02.04.20 21:06:32, tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com wrote:
>         Thank you for you replay,what I want to say is：We don't need dev_err()
> message because when something goes wrong, platform_get_irq() has print an
> error message itself, so we could remove duplicate dev_err() here , or use 
> platform_get_irq_optional() instead. Thank you very much!

Please, do not top-post. See Boris' link in his footer:

 https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

See, now your answer is out of context.

What is wrong having 2 error messages? You want to know of the error
as early as possible and see the causal chain of the error. Hiding it
makes an analysis harder. Errors should happen rarely, so why save a
line in dmesg here? In your case, the irq is not optional, it is
required. So something is wrong if it fails.

Thanks,

-Robert

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> tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com
> 
>      
>     From: Robert Richter
>     Date: 2020-04-02 20:30
>     To: Tang Bin
>     CC: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com; bp@alien8.de; mchehab@kernel.org;
>     tony.luck@intel.com; james.morse@arm.com; linux-edac@vger.kernel.org;
>     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>     Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC/altera:Use platform_get_irq_optional()
>     On 02.04.20 19:27:40, Tang Bin wrote:
>     > In order to simply code,because platform_get_irq() already has
>     > dev_err() message.
>      
>     I don't see a difference other than hiding a -EPROBE_DEFER error
>     message. If that is your intention, please update subject and
>     description accordingly.
>      
>     Thanks,
>      
>     -Robert
>      
>     >
>     > Signed-off-by: Tang Bin <tangbin@cmss.chinamobile.com>
>     > ---
>     >  drivers/edac/altera_edac.c | 4 ++--
>     >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>     >
>     > diff --git a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
>     > index e91cf1147..e12bad148 100644
>     > --- a/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
>     > +++ b/drivers/edac/altera_edac.c
>     > @@ -2099,7 +2099,7 @@ static int altr_edac_a10_probe(struct
>     platform_device *pdev)
>     >  return -ENOMEM;
>     >  }
>     > 
>     > - edac->sb_irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>     > + edac->sb_irq = platform_get_irq_optional(pdev, 0);
>     >  if (edac->sb_irq < 0) {
>     >  dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No SBERR IRQ resource\n");
>     >  return edac->sb_irq;
>     > @@ -2134,7 +2134,7 @@ static int altr_edac_a10_probe(struct
>     platform_device *pdev)
>     >  }
>     >  }
>     >  #else
>     > - edac->db_irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 1);
>     > + edac->db_irq = platform_get_irq_optional(pdev, 1);
>     >  if (edac->db_irq < 0) {
>     >  dev_err(&pdev->dev, "No DBERR IRQ resource\n");
>     >  return edac->db_irq;
>     > --
>     > 2.20.1.windows.1
>     >
>     >
>     >
>