Re: [RESEND 1/9] thermal/hwmon: Add error information printing for devm_thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs()

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 06:21:46 EST


On 13/06/2023 11:56, Yangtao Li wrote:
Ensure that all error handling branches print error information. In this
way, when this function fails, the upper-layer functions can directly
return an error code without missing debugging information. Otherwise,
the error message will be printed redundantly or missing.

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@xxxxxxxx>
---
Resend patchset so that the changes to thermal/hwmon.c are copied to everyone.
drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
index fbe55509e307..a580add5a2f6 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_hwmon.c
@@ -271,11 +271,14 @@ int devm_thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(struct device *dev, struct thermal_zone_device
ptr = devres_alloc(devm_thermal_hwmon_release, sizeof(*ptr),
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ptr)
+ if (!ptr) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to allocate device resource data\n");
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
ret = thermal_add_hwmon_sysfs(tz);
if (ret) {
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to add hwmon sysfs attributes\n");
devres_free(ptr);
return ret;
}

Sorry, I commented to quickly this patch. Please discard my last comment. I think it is a good improvement.

Can you replace the dev_err to dev_warn ?

Thanks

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