[PATCH v4 3/4] pwm: bcm2835: allow pwm driver to be used in atomic context

Sean Young sean at mess.org
Sun Oct 29 01:39:42 PDT 2023


Hello Uwe,

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Sean Young wrote:
> > +	pc->rate = clk_get_rate(pc->clk);
> > +	if (!pc->rate) {
> > +		dev_err(pc->dev, "failed to get clock rate\n");
> > +		ret = -EINVAL;
> 
> Other error paths in this driver use dev_err_probe(). The most compact
> way here would be:
> 
> 	ret = dev_err_probe(pc->dev, -EINVAL, "....");
> 
> but maybe
> 
> 	ret = -EINVAL;
> 	dev_err_probe(pc->dev, ret, "...");
> 
> is a bit easier to parse for a human?!

Using the same dev_err_probe() function for all error paths is nice, so
I will change it for the next version. This change will print the EINVAL
error as well which does not really add anything, but no harm done there.

Thanks,

Sean



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