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[2620:137:e000::1:20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id gv13-20020a1709072bcd00b007316ac034c1si7757958ejc.496.2022.08.21.23.48.01; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 23:48:26 -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 S233099AbiHVGf7 (ORCPT + 99 others); Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:35:59 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57250 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230372AbiHVGf5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:35:57 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com (szxga03-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.189]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A3B2B24BED for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2022 23:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggpemm500021.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.53]) by szxga03-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4MB2dN3t1YzGpkg; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:34:16 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) by dggpemm500021.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.109) 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 14:35:53 +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 14:35:53 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] driver core: switch to use dev_err_probe() To: Greg KH CC: , References: <20220819094656.1945653-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> <1d4d1ef7-7386-cf8f-0a5a-04690ec27ed6@huawei.com> From: Yang Yingliang Message-ID: <8a7afe46-1720-67c7-0068-0d80f0ec3f50@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:35:52 +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: dggems704-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.181) 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 On 2022/8/22 14:09, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:10:22AM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote: >> 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. > You did not answer my question. > > Again, this is not on the probe() callback path, so why are you wanting > to call dev_err_probe()? I was trying to simplify the code, I think I misuse the helper, you can ignore this patch. Thanks, Yang > > thanks, > > greg k-h > .