[PATCH v4 5/6] iio: light: stk3310: log error if reading the chip id fails

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com
Mon Nov 4 00:41:11 PST 2024


On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 03:50:43PM -0400, Aren Moynihan wrote:
> If the chip isn't powered, this call is likely to return an error.
> Without a log here the driver will silently fail to probe. Potential
> errors include ENXIO (when the chip isn't powered) and ETIMEDOUT (when
> the i2c bus isn't powered).
> 
> This function is only called from stk3310_probe, and this condition
> should return an error, which fits what dev_err_probe is designed for.

...

> +		return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to read chip id\n");

Please, make sure you have consistent style in the messages. Most of what
I have seen use period at the end. This one doesn't.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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