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SubjectRe: [PATCH] misc: aspeed-lpc-ctrl: Correct return values
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, at 05:59, Vijay Khemka wrote:
>
>
> On 1/24/19, 12:16 AM, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:06:34PM -0800, Vijay Khemka wrote:
> > Corrected some of return values with appropriate meanings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <vijaykhemka@fb.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c | 15 +++++++--------
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c b/drivers/misc/aspeed-
> lpc-ctrl.c
> > index 332210e06e98..97ae341109d5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c
> > @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ static long aspeed_lpc_ctrl_ioctl(struct file
> *file, unsigned int cmd,
> > unsigned long param)
> > {
> > struct aspeed_lpc_ctrl *lpc_ctrl = file_aspeed_lpc_ctrl(file);
> > - struct device *dev = file->private_data;
> > void __user *p = (void __user *)param;
> > struct aspeed_lpc_ctrl_mapping map;
> > u32 addr;
> > @@ -93,8 +92,8 @@ static long aspeed_lpc_ctrl_ioctl(struct file
> *file, unsigned int cmd,
> >
> > /* If memory-region is not described in device tree */
> > if (!lpc_ctrl->mem_size) {
> > - dev_err(dev, "Didn't find reserved memory\n");
> > - return -EINVAL;
> > + pr_err("aspeed_lpc_ctrl: ioctl: Didn't find reserved memory\n");
>
> Why did you change from dev_err() to pr_err()? You just lost a lot of
> information that the user previously was getting from dev_err() :(
>
> I did this as per review comment from Andrew Jeffery, as we don't want
> to put this error for driver. It has to be handled by userspace. But I
> am still reporting some error here.

Sorry? What I was trying to suggest was removing the logging altogether and
just returning the error code. Not simply changing how the logging is done.

Andrew

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