Re: [PATCH] rtc: max77686: Remove some dead code

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 12/05/2021 12:13, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 10/05/2021 08:20:52-0400, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 09/05/2021 17:06, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>>> On 08/05/2021 18:06:03-0600, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz wrote:
>>>> On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 10:59 AM Christophe JAILLET
>>>> <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Following the recent conversations, I think it might make sense to do
>>>>>> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to register RTC device: %pe\n", info->rtc_dev);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is that right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it is right, but it should be done in another patch.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would you like to give it a try?
>>>>>
>>>> Sure, I'll have the patch ready to send it when I see yours on next.
>>>
>>> Does it make sense to print anything at all? Who would use the output?
>>> Is anyone actually going to read it?
>>
>> If the RTC core does not print the message, it should be
>> dev_err_probe().  However the first is recently preferred - RTC core
>> should do it for all drivers.  I find such error messages useful - helps
>> easily spotting regressions via dmesg -l err.
>>
> 
> The only error path that will not print a message by default (it is
> dev_dbg) is when rtc-ops is NULL which I don't expect would regress
> anyway.

Then the message in the driver is useless and could be removed.

> A better way to remove the dead code would be to switch to
> devm_rtc_allocate_device/devm_rtc_register_device. And even better would
> be to take that opportunity to set range_min and range_max ;)
> 

The driver already uses devm_rtc_device_register() so I think I don't
follow that part.

Best regards,
Krzysztof