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[2620:137:e000::1:20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id w29-20020a63935d000000b00412b3d1a154si11149277pgm.734.2022.08.21.19.40.02; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) client-ip=2620:137:e000::1:20; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 2620:137:e000::1:20 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=QUARANTINE sp=QUARANTINE dis=NONE) header.from=huawei.com Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232315AbiHVCK2 (ORCPT + 99 others); Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:10:28 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48272 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232059AbiHVCK1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Aug 2022 22:10:27 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com (szxga02-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.188]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F199A1FCCC for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggpemm500020.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga02-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4M9wh023fNzXdrl; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:06:08 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) by dggpemm500020.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.49) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:10:24 +0800 Received: from [10.174.178.174] (10.174.178.174) by dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.24; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:10:23 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] driver core: switch to use dev_err_probe() To: Greg KH CC: , References: <20220819094656.1945653-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> From: Yang Yingliang Message-ID: <1d4d1ef7-7386-cf8f-0a5a-04690ec27ed6@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:10:22 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Originating-IP: [10.174.178.174] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems703-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.180) To dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On 2022/8/19 17:42, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:46:56PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote: >> Use dev_err_probe() to simplify code and print error code. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang >> --- >> drivers/base/core.c | 8 +++----- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c >> index 753e7cca0f40..e51a09f9d0ec 100644 >> --- a/drivers/base/core.c >> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c >> @@ -2507,11 +2507,9 @@ static ssize_t uevent_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, >> int rc; >> >> rc = kobject_synth_uevent(&dev->kobj, buf, count); >> - >> - if (rc) { >> - dev_err(dev, "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent\n"); >> - return rc; >> - } >> + if (rc) >> + return dev_err_probe(dev, rc, >> + "uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent\n"); > I do not understand this at all, this is not on the probe path at all, > so why is this function needed? > > Have you tested this? What was the resulting output before and after > this change? Yes, after this change, the error code will be print. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > .