[PATCH] regulator: ab8500-ext: Don't register without initialisation data

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Thu May 23 04:23:43 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> > diff --git a/drivers/regulator/ab8500-ext.c b/drivers/regulator/ab8500-ext.c
>> > index b4d4547..8421537 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/regulator/ab8500-ext.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/regulator/ab8500-ext.c
>> > @@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ int ab8500_ext_regulator_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> >                 return -EINVAL;
>> >         }
>> >
>> > +       /* have any external regulators been specified? */
>> > +       if (pdata->num_ext_regulator == 0) {
>> > +               dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Not using external regulators\n");
>> > +               return 0;
>> > +       }
>>
>> dev_warn() is really when we warn about something really nasty, worse
>> than dev_err(). It seems dev_info() is more apropriate.
>
> Are you confusing it with dev_crit()?
>
> This is how the levels are defined, and "warning" is less urgent than "error":

Yeah :-/

But I still think this should be just dev_info().

No big deal though.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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