Re: [PATCH] of: use pr_fmt prefix for all console printing

From: Frank Rowand
Date: Thu Jun 02 2016 - 17:44:28 EST


On 06/02/16 12:56, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 06/02/16 08:14, Rob Herring wrote:
>>> Clean-up all the DT printk functions to use common pr_fmt prefix.
>>>
>>> Some print statements such as kmalloc errors were redundant, so just
>>> drop those.
>>>
>>> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/of/address.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>> drivers/of/base.c | 11 ++++++----
>>> drivers/of/dynamic.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>>> drivers/of/fdt.c | 12 +++++------
>>> drivers/of/fdt_address.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>>> drivers/of/irq.c | 2 ++
>>> drivers/of/of_numa.c | 22 ++++++--------------
>>> drivers/of/of_pci.c | 6 ++++--
>>> drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c | 22 ++++++++++----------
>>> drivers/of/overlay.c | 43 +++++++++++++++-----------------------
>>> drivers/of/platform.c | 16 +++++++--------
>>> drivers/of/resolver.c | 2 ++
>>> 12 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Nice cleanup. A couple of comments below.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> < snip >

< snip >

>>> @@ -355,8 +355,6 @@ int of_overlay_create(struct device_node *tree)
>>>
>>> id = idr_alloc(&ov_idr, ov, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> if (id < 0) {
>>> - pr_err("%s: idr_alloc() failed for tree@%s\n",
>>> - __func__, tree->full_name);
>>
>> Every other error in of_overlay_create() results in a pr_err().
>> (The other cases of removing pr_err() in this file are fine, because
>> the errors are already reported in the functions called from this
>> function.)
>>
>> I would recommend leaving in the pr_err() for idr_alloc() failure.
>
> I was thinking idr_alloc is going to call kmalloc which will print
> errors on failure, but there may be some case it doesn't.
>
> Rob

I did not read idr_alloc() carefully enough. Given the arguments it
is called with, none of the non-kmalloc error returns are possible.
So you were correct to remove this pr_err().

-Frank