Re: [PATCH] usb: fotg210-hcd: Fix an error message

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri May 07 2021 - 03:09:59 EST


On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 10:20:30AM +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 22:39 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > 'retval' is known to be -ENODEV here.
> > This is a hard-coded default error code which is not useful in the error
> > message. Moreover, another error message is printed at the end of the
> > error handling path. The corresponding error code (-ENOMEM) is more
> > informative.
> >
> > So remove simplify the first error message.
> >
> > While at it, also remove the useless initialization of 'retval'.
> >
> > Fixes: 7d50195f6c50 ("usb: host: Faraday fotg210-hcd driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c
> > index 6cac642520fc..9c2eda0918e1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c
> > @@ -5568,7 +5568,7 @@ static int fotg210_hcd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > struct usb_hcd *hcd;
> > struct resource *res;
> > int irq;
> > - int retval = -ENODEV;
> > + int retval;
> > struct fotg210_hcd *fotg210;
> >
> > if (usb_disabled())
> > @@ -5588,7 +5588,7 @@ static int fotg210_hcd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > hcd = usb_create_hcd(&fotg210_fotg210_hc_driver, dev,
> > dev_name(dev));
> > if (!hcd) {
> > - dev_err(dev, "failed to create hcd with err %d\n", retval);
> > + dev_err(dev, "failed to create hcd\n");
> > retval = -ENOMEM;
> How about moving this line before dev_err()? then could keep error log
> unchanged.

Then the error message would print misleading information. The
usb_create_hcd() does not return -ENOMEM, it returns NULL.

regards,
dan carpenter