[PATCH 3/7] media: cedrus: Improve error messages for controls

Jernej Skrabec jernej.skrabec at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 10:55:13 PDT 2022


Currently error messages when control creation fails are very sparse.
Granted, user should never observe them. However, developer working on
codecs can. In such cases additional information like which control
creation failed and error number are very useful.

Expand error messages with additional info.

Signed-off-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
index b12219123a6b..99c87319d2b4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ static int cedrus_init_ctrls(struct cedrus_dev *dev, struct cedrus_ctx *ctx)
 	v4l2_ctrl_handler_init(hdl, CEDRUS_CONTROLS_COUNT);
 	if (hdl->error) {
 		v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev,
-			 "Failed to initialize control handler\n");
+			 "Failed to initialize control handler: %d\n",
+			 hdl->error);
 		return hdl->error;
 	}
 
@@ -257,7 +258,9 @@ static int cedrus_init_ctrls(struct cedrus_dev *dev, struct cedrus_ctx *ctx)
 					    NULL);
 		if (hdl->error) {
 			v4l2_err(&dev->v4l2_dev,
-				 "Failed to create new custom control\n");
+				 "Failed to create %s control: %d\n",
+				 v4l2_ctrl_get_name(cedrus_controls[i].cfg.id),
+				 hdl->error);
 
 			v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(hdl);
 			kfree(ctx->ctrls);
-- 
2.36.1




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