Re: [PATCH] staging: media: lirc: lirc_zilog.c: adjust debug messages

From: Aya Mahfouz
Date: Mon Nov 03 2014 - 19:17:28 EST


On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Konrad Zapalowicz wrote:
> On 11/01, Aya Mahfouz wrote:
> > This patch removes one debug message and replaces a dev_err
> > call by pr_err.
>
> Usually you would like to send this as two separate patches because
> replacing a debug message is way different than removing some code. It
> should look like:
>
> PATCH 0/2 staging: media: adjust debug messages
> PATCH 1/2 staging: media: replace dev_err...
> PATCH 2/2 staging: media: remove debug message..
>
> The lirc_zilog.c is not necessary in the topic line, as this can be seen
> from the diff.
>

Thanks Konrad for your pieces of advice.

Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz

> > Signed-off-by: Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c | 7 +------
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
> > index 11a7cb1..ba538cd4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_zilog.c
> > @@ -1336,11 +1336,6 @@ static int close(struct inode *node, struct file *filep)
> > /* find our IR struct */
> > struct IR *ir = filep->private_data;
> >
> > - if (ir == NULL) {
> > - dev_err(ir->l.dev, "close: no private_data attached to the file!\n");
> > - return -ENODEV;
> > - }
> > -
>
> What is the reason behind this change? What would happen if the
> filep->private_data is NULL? Are the callers of this function aware that
> it will not return ENODEV anymore?
>
> thanks,
> konrad
>
> > atomic_dec(&ir->open_count);
> >
> > put_ir_device(ir, false);
> > @@ -1633,7 +1628,7 @@ out_put_xx:
> > out_put_ir:
> > put_ir_device(ir, true);
> > out_no_ir:
> > - dev_err(ir->l.dev, "%s: probing IR %s on %s (i2c-%d) failed with %d\n",
> > + pr_err("%s: probing IR %s on %s (i2c-%d) failed with %d\n",
> > __func__, tx_probe ? "Tx" : "Rx", adap->name, adap->nr,
> > ret);
> > mutex_unlock(&ir_devices_lock);
> > --
> > 1.9.3
> >
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