Re: [PATCH 1/1] atmel-ssc: fix misuse of dev_dbg when requested sscinstance is not found

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 04:37:28 EST


On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:26:54 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [CCs added]
>
> Hans-Christian Egtvedt wrote:
> > This patch replaces the dev_dbg(...) with a pr_err since the ssc pointer
> > is not valid when the id is not found in the list.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ...or should I just apply it to the avr32 tree?
>

Is OK, I tossed into onto my 2.6.29 pile.

Should it be backported to 2.6.28.x or earlier?

>
> > ---
> > drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c b/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> > index 6b35874..6cff1bb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/atmel-ssc.c
> > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct ssc_device *ssc_request(unsigned int ssc_num)
> >
> > if (!ssc_valid) {
> > spin_unlock(&user_lock);
> > - dev_dbg(&ssc->pdev->dev, "could not find requested device\n");
> > + pr_err("ssc: ssc%d platform device is missing\n", ssc_num);
> > return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> > }
> >
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